IVORY TOWER


Meaning of IVORY TOWER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Departmental barriers and ivory tower attitudes are detrimental to good results.

For heaven's sake, you've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember.

I argued in Chapter 5 that the image of the ivory tower in no way describes the contemporary position of higher education.

I think you live in an ivory tower .

Now to return to my dusty library at the top of the ivory tower .

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