11 July 2016

• Pipe dream: Any fantastic notion, hope or story.
• Rouhani's dream to unite Muslims under the banner of Iran is a pipe dream. It will never happen. (Micah Halpern)
• Shoot from the hip: To act or speak on the matter without forethought.
• Like Trump, the Ugandan president seemed to be shooting from the hip. (Jerusalem Post)
• Fly in the face of: To act in defiance of (authority, customs etc.).  
• I also lamented our self-imposed fondness for incrementalism, which not only flies in the face of the spirit of innovation we routinely espouse but is perilously at odds with the realities of life beyond our ivory towers. (Martin Binks)