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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
blue-sky
 
PRONUNCIATION:blsk
ADJECTIVE:1. Unrealistic and impractical: [The author] shows what is testable physics, what is philosphy's domain, and what is blue-sky nonsense” (Ann Finkbeiner, quoted in New York Times Book Review by Laurel Graeber October 13, 1996). 2. Having a cloudless sky; clear: a blue-sky day.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: blue-·skied, blue-·sky·ing, blue-·skies
To hold or express unrealistic or impractical views, especially in estimating something. Often used with it.
 
 
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