never-never
Use Never-never in a sentence
ərˈnɛv adjective
3.
not real or true; imaginary or ideal; illusory: the never-never world of the cinema.
Origin:
1880–85
1880–85
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| never-never | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the hire-purchase system of buying |
| 2. | (Austral) remote desert country, as that of W Queensland and central Australia |
| —adj | |
| 3. | imaginary; idyllic (esp in the phrase never-never land) |
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Never-never
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example sentences
The absence of a painless solution may simply encourage governments to push the bill further into the never-never.
But this is back to the bad old days of consumption financed on the never-never.
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