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an ivory tower

if you are in an ivory tower, you are in a place or situation where you are separated from ordinary life and its problems. How much of the research done by academics in their ivory towers is ever read or published?

See also: ivory

a pillar/tower of strength

someone who gives a lot of support to someone else who is in a difficult situation. Roger was a tower of strength when my parents died.

See also: pillar, strength