ivory tower

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İngilizce - Türkçe
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live in an ivory tower
hayâl aleminde yaşamak
live in an ivory tower
(deyim) hayaller aleminde yaşamak
one's ivory tower
(deyim) dunya gerceklerinden uzak hayal alemi
İngilizce - İngilizce
A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations

Hamilton College is an ivory tower with an open bar, and so I - who work and play equally hard - have come to love this place, and have been dead-set against leaving it.

a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place; "he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers
place withdrawn from the troubles and pressures of everyday life, attitude of aloofness
disapproval If you describe someone as living in an ivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is. A place or attitude of retreat, especially preoccupation with lofty, remote, or intellectual considerations rather than practical everyday life. a place or situation where you are separated from the difficulties of ordinary life and so are unable to understand them, used especially to describe a college or university

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ivory towers
plural form of ivory tower
ivory tower

    Heceleme

    i·vo·ry tow·er

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    ayvri tauır

    Telaffuz

    /ˈīvrē ˈtouər/ /ˈaɪvriː ˈtaʊɜr/

    Etimoloji

    () While the term is used in Song of Solomon 7:4, its meaning is literal. The current figurative meaning comes from French tour d'ivoire, attributed to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, who used it in Les consolations poem to compare the poet Alfred de Vigny (more isolated) with Victor Hugo (more socially engaged)(fr) Joseph Delorme, Poésies complètes de Sainte-Beuve, Charpentier et Cie, 1869, p. 374, . The first known written use in English is H. L. Bergson's Laughter (1911) by Frederick Rothwell and Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton.(en) The Phrase Finder