mondo dei sogni

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “world of the dreams”.

Noun

mondo dei sogni m (plural mondi dei sogni)

1. dreamworld
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     E, anche se nel tempo trascorso alla Casa Bianca mi sarebbe capitato raramente di faticare a addormentarmi (ero sempre talmente stanco che cinque minuti dopo aver appoggiato la testa sul cuscino ero già partito per il mondo dei sogni)...

     And although I rarely had trouble falling asleep during my time in the White House (I'd be so tired that within five minutes of my head hitting the pillow, I'd usually be out cold)...

     (literally, “And, even if in the time spent at the White House it rarely occurred to me that I struggled to fall asleep (I was always so tired that five minutes after having laid down my head on the pillow I had already headed off for dreamworld)...”)

2. (humorous, by extension) cloud-cuckoo-land