Ivory tower : 상아탑 (속세의 근심 걱정과 격리된 장소나 상황 / 현실과 동떨어진 사색이나 몽상의 세계)
Live in an Ivory tower : 현실과 동떨어져 살다, 생활이 현실에서 떨어져 있다, 현실성 현실감이 부족하다
1)
to Live in an Ivory tower
this is an idiom which means to live in a world that has no contact or no understanding of everyday life of what real people experience
the rich man living in his ivory tower
a sheltered existence
the professors at oxford university often live in their ivory tower thinking about mathematics and are completely disconnected with the real world
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2)
we use this phrase an ivory tower, to say somebody has a lack of reality, a lacak of practical considerations
the top politicians they look down at the people from their ivory tower and say this is what they should do
if you are living in an ivory tower, you don't know about or you want to avoid the ordinary and unpleasant things that happen in people's lives or in real lives
I have a feeling that in the vatican people live in an ivory tower, they are concerned with their religion and thier theories but they don't have contact with what is important for what ordinary people need and how to make the life of joe public much better
a state of previleged seclusion
you are separated from the practicalities of the real world, particulary in the ivory tower of academia
these professors living in their ivory tower
3)
you could use an ivory tower attitude as impractical and escapist
you are completely aloof and you have no worries about the practicality or about urgent problems
it's where you can be escapist and this particularly to a place or a seat of learning
the bosses of this company should get down from their ivory tower and have a look at what actually happens on shop floor and what is really happening to people
this is talking about a state of unreality of distance from the reality
ivory tower artistic concerns, it's like living in a different world
you have disregard for wordly or practical affairs
he is rich and he lives in an ivory tower of complacency about the problems of the world
to come down off your ivory tower
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