HAVE YOUR HEAD IN THE CLOUDS - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of have your head in the clouds in English

have your head in the clouds

idiom (also with your head in the clouds, someone's head is in the clouds) Add to word list Add to word list used to say that someone's ideas or plans are not practical or reasonable, or that they are thinking about something that is not important or not connected with what needs to be done : He was often criticized for not being realistic, for having his head in the clouds. Some visionaries have their heads in the clouds and can’t explain simple concepts without getting sidetracked. It's possible that your buyer actually has their head in the clouds and doesn't have the money. He's a spiritual man, but not a man with his head in the clouds — he's also a scientist. I was aware of what was going on. I didn't walk around with my head in the clouds. Your heart is in the right place but your head is in the clouds. Unaware

• agnotology
• be in the dark idiom
• be on another planet idiom
• benighted
• benightedly
• blindly
• foggy
• Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knows idiom
• illiterate
• imperceptive
• in blissful ignorance idiom
• in ignorance
• innumeracy
• tin ear
• tin-eared
• unacquainted
• unattuned
• unawakened
• wouldn't know something if you fell over one/it idiom
• your guess is as good as mine idiom

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have your game face on have your hands full idiom have your head (buried/stuck) in a book idiom have your head (stuck) up your (own) ass idiom have your head in the clouds idiom have your head screwed on (the right way) idiom have your head up your arse idiom have your knife into someone idiom have your nose in a book idiom {{#randomImageQuizHook.filename}} {{#randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes Try a quiz now {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{^randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.filename}}

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