IVORY TOWER


Meaning of IVORY TOWER in English

(~s)

If you describe someone as living in an ~, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life.

They don’t really, in their ~s, understand how pernicious drug crime is.

N-COUNT: usu prep N, N n disapproval

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