La-La Land
- noun
- /ˈlɑːˌlɑː lænd/
- Informal
- I think that there's just maybe this sense of La La land kind of for lack of a better term, where you're like, yeah, of course we all want to do this.
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Watch on YouTubeI think that there's just maybe this sense of La La land kind of for lack of a better term, where you're like, yeah, of course we all want to do this.
- I think that there's just maybe this sense of La La land kind of for lack of a better term, where you're like, yeah, of course we all want to do this.
- They're thinking in La La land when they haven't even done anything specific, like really notable right now.
- I know I've got a few people in my life that have this toxic positivity and they're living in, I'll call it La La Land.
- If you live in a La La land of I'm supposed to just buy bean bags and have you know, and and and keep employees happy.
Examples
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He's sound asleep, snoring, you know, sawing logs like he's already like in la, la land in his deep dream state.
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If you live in a La La land of I'm supposed to just buy bean bags and have you know, and and and keep employees happy.
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They're thinking in La La land when they haven't even done anything specific, like really notable right now.
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She was in La La Land, so he asked us to leave the stage and he pulled his chair up to Jenny and he was saying, Jenny, Jenny, calm down.
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He's sound asleep, snoring, you know, sawing logs like he's already like in la, la land in his deep dream state.
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After hearing the news, he seemed to be living in La-La Land, completely unaware of the challenges ahead.
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Many people choose to stay in La-La Land instead of facing the harsh realities of life.
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Her thoughts about winning the lottery are pure La-La Land, as she never buys a ticket.
Synonyms
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6.3
A way of thinking that ignores real problems and expects impossible results
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6.6
An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams
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8.8
A made-up perfect place that exists only in dreams
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An imaginary place where people are out of touch with reality because they are too optimistic
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8.0
An imaginary land of dreams in stories and books
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8.6
An imaginary place where a person avoids real life and adult duties
Antonyms
How Detached
Surface Forms
Morphology
La-La + land
The idiomatic sense 'out of touch with reality' cannot be reliably derived from the parts: 'La-La' is a non-lexical reduplication with no clear literal meaning and 'land' only denotes a place, so the overall figurative sense is not predictable from the constituents. The expression is culturally and metaphorically specific (often linked to Hollywood/fanciful escapism), so a B1 learner who simply knows the component words would unlikely infer the intended meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
La-La Land comes from a playful nickname for Los Angeles: people hear 'L.A.' as La-La and picture a land of songs and dreams. This image of people singing 'la-la' and living in a fantasy place explains why the phrase means 'out of touch with reality'.