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Lisa is living in a fool's paradise if she thinks her boss is going to marry her.
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on illusion or false hope.
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illusion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. delusion, hallucination, vision, apparition; chimera, mirage, bubble, figment [of the mind or imagination]; dream, fool s paradise; misconception, self delusion, error; legerdemain. See deception. II… … English dictionary for students
false — adj. 1 not true, genuine or real VERBS ▪ be, look, prove, sound ADVERB ▪ absolutely, completely, entirely, quite … Collocations dictionary
vain hope — false hope, dream that has no hope of being fulfilled, illusion … English contemporary dictionary
fool's paradise — noun A state of happiness due to illusion or false hope. The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. nbsp;Hopkins Parker was living in a fools paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name… … Wiktionary
pipe dream — noun a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe • Syn: ↑dream • Hypernyms: ↑fantasy, ↑phantasy * * * n daydream, dream, delusion, fantasy, reverie, romance,… … Useful english dictionary
mirage — Synonyms and related words: apparition, appearance, bafflement, balk, bamboozlement, befooling, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bluffing, buffet, calculated deception, circumvention, comedown, conning, cruel… … Moby Thesaurus
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