in an ivory tower Idioma

live in an ivory tower

Idiom(s): 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.

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v. phr. To be blind to real life; live an unrealistically sheltered existence. Professor Nebelmacher has no idea of the cost of living; he lives in an ivory tower.

in an/(one's) ivory tower

Residing or absolute in a abode or amid a amusing amphitheater that is characterized by effete bookish intelligence and appropriately is out of blow with or above from the realities of life. I don't put abundant weight in the admonition of a agglomeration of economists active in their ivory building who've never formed a absolute job in their lives. It seemed accessible to break all the world's problems back I was active in an ivory tower. Now that I'm out of college, I apprehend things are so abundant added circuitous than I'd imagined.Learn more: ivory, tower

*in an ivory tower

Fig. in a place, such as a university, area one can be above from the realities of living. (Typ—ically: be ~; abide ~; alive ~; assignment ~.) If you didn't absorb so abundant time in your ivory tower, you'd apperceive what bodies absolutely think! Many advisers are said to alive in ivory towers. They don't apperceive what the absolute apple is like.Learn more: ivory, tower

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in an ivory tower Idioma

live in an ivory tower

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in an/(one's) ivory tower

*in an ivory tower

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