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Ivory tower
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torre de marfil, torre de marfil
a situation or state in which someone does not know or wishes to avoid the unpleasant things that can normally happen to people in their ordinary lives
Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
Ejemplos
The book was written by some college professor who 's spent her entire professional life in an ivory tower.
El libro fue escrito por un profesor universitario que ha pasado toda su vida profesional en una torre de marfil.
The professor 's theories are intriguing, but they often come across as ivory tower ideas that do n't consider real-world constraints.
Las teorías del profesor son intrigantes, pero a menudo se perciben como ideas de torre de marfil que no consideran las limitaciones del mundo real.
