Never-never land
noun
1.
an unreal, imaginary, or ideal state, condition, place, etc.
2.
any remote, isolated, barren, or sparsely settled region.
Originally called Neverland, the home of the title character in the story Peter Pan; a place where children never grow up.
A fantasy land, an imaginary place, as in I don’t know what’s gotten into Marge—she’s way off in never-never land. This expression gained currency when James Barrie used it in Peter Pan (1904) for the place where Peter and the Lost Boys live. However, in the second half of the 1800s Australians already were using it for vast unsettled areas of their continent (the outback), and there the term became popular through Mrs. Aeneas Gunn’s We of the Never Never (1908). In Australia it still refers to northwest Queensland or northern Australia in general. Elsewhere it simply signifies a fantasy or daydream.
Read Also:
- Never offline
software (NOL) /noh-el/ A software service provided by America’s Multimedia Online that allows Internet users to be constantly connected to the Internet. (http://neveroffline.com/). [But what *is* it?] (1999-11-03)
- Never put off until tomorrow
see under put off
- Nevers
[nuh-ver] /nəˈvɛr/ noun 1. a city in and the capital of Nièvre, in central France, on the Loire River: Romanesque church. [nye-vruh] /ˈnyɛ vrə/ noun 1. a department in central France. 2659 sq. mi. (6885 sq. km). Capital: Nevers. [nee-ver-ne] /ni vɛrˈnɛ/ noun 1. a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers. /French nəvɛr/ noun […]
- Never say never
Nothing is impossible, anything can happen, as in Mary said Tom would never call her again, but I told her, “Never say never.” This expression was first recorded in Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers (1837).
- Nevertheless
[nev-er-th uh-les] /ˌnɛv ər ðəˈlɛs/ adverb 1. nonetheless; notwithstanding; however; in spite of that: a small but nevertheless important change. /ˌnɛvəðəˈlɛs/ sentence connector 1. in spite of that; however; yet adv. c.1300, neuer þe lesse; as one word from early 14c., neuerþeles. The sense of never here is “not at all; none the,” as in […]