in dreams
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7.5
- idiom
- Informal
:
en sueños
- seen in dreams
Examples
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With torture so sweet I've loved you in dreams
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Sometimes things come back to me in dreams. but I'm never sure if they're reaI or if I'm making them up.
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They have come to me in dreams and have reinforced my belief that I have been a part of every culture in my past lives so that I can become a part of the new world, a world of no borders.
Blog text (34) -
I was shown very clearly in dreams that it is absolutely useless and destructive to choose the path of control—for any reason—unless you fully and completely intend to become a sociopathic mass murderer.
Blog text (34) -
He demonstrates characteristic Midewiwin behavior when he blackens his face to seek counsel in dreams, shapeshifts to guide Eli on the hunt, and draws on a wide repertoire of power songs to sing a burnt child back to health.
Academic text (1997) -
Winning the lottery is something that only happens in dreams for most people.
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She hopes to meet her favorite movie star, but she knows it is likely to occur in dreams.
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Imagining a perfect world without any problems exists in dreams and not in reality.
Synonyms
8
6.1
Far more than someone could ever imagine
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9.8
A phrase people say to show something is very unlikely to happen
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'very unlikely or impossible' is directly derivable from combining 'in' (inside) with 'dreams' (fantasy/aspiration) — i.e. something that exists only in dreams, not in reality. This simple spatial/metaphorical composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g. 'dans tes rêves', 'en tus sueños') and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
In dreams comes from the picture of something that happens only while you are in your dreams, not when you are awake. So it means 'very unlikely' or 'impossible' to happen in real life.