at the end of the rainbow

at the end of the rainbow used to refer to something much sought after but impossible to attain 在可望而不可即的地方。 [ORIGIN: with allusion to the story of a crock of gold supposedly to be found by anyone reaching the end of a rainbow.]

• monkey about (或around)
• elastication
• disannuls
• donees
• beset on
• fiddler
• naval architects
• set about sb
• autotomises
• video store
• about one's ears
• U.K.A.E.A.
• clamatorial
• kiss of peace
• hunger strikes
• mimollet
• anisometropias
• illimitably
• descend
• relative time
• preclassic
• go some way towards doing sth
• believe sth of sb
• DD
• Oxford Movement
• dargah
• Pan-Asianism
• shrink-wraps
• recoverest
• crab louse
• insoluble residue
• supercoils
• tracheobronchial
• a nodding acquaintance
• noninterventionists
• ribbon mixer
• naively
• Big Sky country
• reprivatize
• in arms
• SCM
• duck arse
• pheasant's-eye
• e.e.
• information content
• suction slot
• madrepore
• reflexological
• Darwinians
• god-givens
• rapidness
• yeomanly
• humic
• Nanak
• Bessemer, Sir Henry
• Xnty
• Maglemosian
• cash a cheque / postal order / draft etc
• trophied
• bulky
• plain water
• alite
• critical strain
• golden wedding
• Microbacterium
• epistasy
• good numbers
• umbrella pine
• shunnings
• neguss
• logjammed
• diaplases
• numerati
• horse mackerel
• sextant altitude
• germanely
• scrouger
• La Scala
• charter rates
• screw off
• breakweather
• stone curlews
• acetone sugar
• grace with
• rheometry
• Ross
• female rhyme
• end product
• beta-adrenergic receptor
• shrieving
• nosily
• voice-command chip
• sleep through
• humanesque
• salt cedars
• breast-fed
• fork
• participialize
• Nahuatls
• underdrawerss