never-never
[
nev
-er-
nev
-er]
/ˈnɛv ərˈnɛv ər/
noun
1.
never-never land
.
2.
British Slang.
hire-purchase system
.
adjective
3.
not real or true; imaginary or ideal; illusory:
the never-never world of the cinema.
Origin
1880-85
Examples from the web for
never-never
The absence of a painless solution may simply encourage governments to push the bill further into the
never-never
.
But this is back to the bad old days of consumption financed on the
never-never
.
British Dictionary definitions for
never-never
never-never
noun
1.
the hire-purchase system of buying
2.
(
Austral
) remote desert country, as that of W Queensland and central Australia
adjective
3.
imaginary; idyllic (esp in the phrase
never-never land
)