live in an ivory tower meaning
[American idiom]
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.
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.
- dwell in an ivory tower: [American slang]Go ...
- in an ivory tower: [American slang]Fi ...
- work in an ivory tower: [American slang]Go ...
Examples
More: Next- i thought you'd never realize that . it seems you used to live in an ivory tower
- b : i thought you'd never realize that . it seems you used to live in an ivory tower
- Although somewhat cocooned in an academic environment, Chorbachi doesn't live in an ivory tower.
- "He is approachable; he doesn't live in an ivory tower,"
- You cannot live in an ivory tower and make fashion or anything artistic, no you can't.
