in someone's wildest dreams
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6.1
- idiom
- Informal
:
ni en sus sueños más locos
- "Never in my wildest dreams," said Edward.
- Never in my wildest dreams
- In my wildest dreams, I never thought
- I never imagined in my wildest dreams
Examples
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I started this blog not too long ago, and in my wildest dreams, I never would have.
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Never in my wildest dreams did I think Foo Fighters would make it this far.
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"Not even in my wildest dreams.
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Never, in my wildest dreams, did I think that someday cars would be able to park themselves.
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I earn more and have saved more than I ever imagined in my wildest dreams.
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In my wildest dreams, I never thought that my daughter would have the chance to work with such amazing producers, directors, and actors.
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I'm an ex-liberal on race myself, and I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams I'd be writing any of this.
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In my wildest dreams, we will interact and get to know each other, dropping barriers and enriching each other's lives.
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I will also echo others' comments and say that as a die-hard responsibility-eschewing free spirit, having a child 9 years ago brought me clarity and inspiration and took me to places I never could have reached in my wildest dreams.
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Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that I would meet my childhood hero.
Synonyms
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3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
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6.8
To a degree that is very hard to believe
Much better than you could imagine or hope for
Antonyms
How Imaginable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'in (someone's) dreams' indicates imagined scenarios and 'wildest' (superlative of 'wild') signals the most extreme or fanciful ones, so together they mean 'even in the most extreme imagined scenarios.' This logical combination is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English modifiers, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can reliably infer the idiomatic sense.
Etymology
In someone's wildest dreams paints a picture of a person imagining the most extreme, strange things in their dreams and the wildest ideas their mind can make. So it is used when something is 'far beyond what someone could ever imagine'.