Noun : the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.    From Dictionary.com. 

(To hold up perfection as a standard is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Speculation On Why Harper Has Sent Us To Polls « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

A year ago British prime minister John Major dismissed Goldsmith as “living in cloud-cuckoo-land.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire with a Cause] Reference

Why, it would not even surprise me to find my own memoirs classified as fiction, myself relegated to cloud-cuckoo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]

He was big and he was strong, but he had never seen anything like the sledgehammer left hook that sent him to cloud-cuckoo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Again No More] Reference

He did not force Gore to debate a crackpot from cloud-cuckoo-land who is still waiting for the evidence to arrive about human sources of radical climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 7-20-08] Reference

It was strange how, of all people, Beth had been the one to find a real home in the cloud-cuckoo-land of Underhill, while he, Eric, just couldn't find any way to be contented here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music To My Sorrow]

In the cloud-cuckoo-land of the market fundamentalist, the MBA-wielding businesswomen pursue their own self-interest and, through the magic of the market, manage to do good by doing well.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: The Fallacy of the Talented Tenth] Reference

To the despair of the Europhiles, who inhabit their own cloud-cuckoo-land of idealism, it is sentiments like this, amongst ordinary people, which I believe are eventually going to bring the "project" down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing faith in Europe] Reference

As Jessica Mitford described it in her classic accusation of a book, "The American Way of Death," the end of life has become a "grotesque cloud-cuckoo-land where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Leg Waxing And Life Everlasting] Reference

What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

That this shallow man advocates cloud-cuckoo-land neolib reforms is not surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Tribune] Reference

Somehow he managed the trick of living in scientific reality half of the time and in fundamentalist cloud-cuckoo-land the other half of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secular Outpost] Reference

This, however, could be dismissed as more cloud-cuckoo-land on the part of the diarist, and was not more important than it appeared on the surface to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Last I Died]

The other cuts you propose would be a good start, but any idea that the money will go anywhere other than towards paying off our now MASSIVE debt is cloud-cuckoo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

Gentleman is living in cloud-cuckoo-land if he thinks that that is all that happens in policing-and I would not believe "PC David Copperfield" either, because that is more of a fiction than Dickens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Policeman's Blog] Reference

Hon Annette King: Does he agree with the Minister for Social Development and Employment, who said that there are jobs out there for everyone, or with Paul Henry, who said on Breakfast that if Paula Bennett believed that she was living in cloud-cuckoo-land?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

That is why tax increases and spending cuts are inevitable immediately after the election, assuming that there are signs of economic recovery by then - and why any managers of a public service who are not planning now on the basis that they will have substantially less money to spend in two years time are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet another broadside against Brown's economic management] Reference

You were standing there in cloud-cuckoo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine for the soul] Reference

Only in cloud-cuckoo-land, chaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

We are living in cloud-cuckoo-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newbury News Today | News] Reference