in an ideal perfect world

Meaning

1. in an ideal / a perfect world

   used to say that sth is what you would like to happen or what should happen, but you know it cannot

   In an ideal world we would be recycling and reusing everything.

From the same entry

• be all the world to
• the best of both worlds possible worlds
• be worlds apart
• come down in the world
• come into the world
• do the world of good
• for all the world as if
• have the world at your feet
• how, why, in the world
• in the world
• in a world of your own
• a man of the world