live in an ivory tower Idiome

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.

live in an/(one's) ivory tower

To abide or abide 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, live, tower

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live in an ivory tower Idiome