| 词汇 | live in an ivory tower |
| 释义 | Idiom live in an ivory tower Theme: ALOOF to be aloof from the realities of living. (Live can be replaced by a number of expressions meaning "to dwell or spend time," as in the first example.)If you didn't spend so much time in your ivory tower, you'd know what people really think!Many professors are said to live in ivory towers. They don't know what the real world is like. live in an/(one's) ivory towerTo reside or exist in a place or among a social circle that is characterized by effete academic intelligence and thus is out of touch with or aloof from the realities of life. I don't put much weight in the advice of a bunch of economists living in their ivory towers who've never worked a real job in their lives. It seemed easy to solve all the world's problems when I was living in an ivory tower. Now that I'm out of college, I realize things are so much more complex than I'd imagined. |
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