wishful thinking

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wishful thinking

believing that something is true or that something will happen just because one wishes that it were true or would happen. Hoping for a car as a birthday present is just wishful thinking. Your parents can't afford it. Mary thinks that she is going to get a big raise, but that's wishful thinking. Her boss is so tight with money.

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It is not any more to my liking than anyone else, but I think that we need cool analysis rather than wishful thinking and easy solutions. Just a small cog in a big wheel; Your Say by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) The politics of wishful thinking dictates that labour costs will keep rising, while the prices of goods and services remain constant. Cyprus, the isle of wishful thinking by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) ED Miliband is one of Labour's deeper thinking ministers, but the projection in his Green Manifesto of 400,000 new green jobs seems like wishful thinking (The Journal, July 17). Green jobs plan is wishful thinking; VOICE OF THE NORTH by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			wipe the floor up with wipe the floor with wipe the slate clean wipe the smile off face wipe up wire wire ahead wire back to wire for wire in wire together wire up wired into wisdom wise wise as Solomon wise to wise up wiser wish wish away wish for wish list wish on wish the ground would swallow up wishful thinking wit witch with a bang but with a whimper with a capital with a capital [A etc.] with a fine-tooth comb with a heavy heart with a vengeance with a view to doing with advance notice with all due respect with all heart with all the fixin's with all the trimmings with an eye to with back against the wall with bare hands with bated breath with bells on with both barrels with child with each passing day with ease with every breath with everything			wished joy wished on wished on wished on wished-for Wishedly wisher wisher wisher wisher wishers wishers wishers wishes wishes wishes wishes wishes Wishes & Rainbows Foundation wishes joy wishes joy wishes on wishes on wishes on wishful wishful wishful wishful thinker Wishful Thinkin' Wishful Thinkin' wishful thinking Wishful Thinking Syndrome wishfully wishfully wishfulness wishfulness WISHH wishing wishing wishing wishing wishing bone wishing cap wishing joy wishing joy wishing on wishing on wishing on Wishing To Remain Anonymous Wishing Well Wishing wells Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again Wishly WISHR wisht Wisht hounds Wisht hounds Wishtonwish wishwash wishy-washier wishy-washiest

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