Meanings
- Something rare and wonderful.
to be the stuff dreams are made of
4 more examples
They ought to find out that alcohol is merely the result of a natural process; that it isn't nectar, but has a very bad taste; that it isn't the stuff that dreams are made of, but the stuff drunks are made of.
1913 September 2, “Favors Tea in Place of Whiskey”, in The American Issue, volume 8, number 35, page 7At the least, what I offer here gives people some respite, so they can go on with the daily grind of their lives. At best, it's the stuff dreams are made of.
2003, Barbara Haynie, The Terrain of Paradise, page 183The memory of a caught fly-ball, played on a loop again and again in their minds, will last forever. This is the stuff dreams are made of.
2010, Gerry Crowley, Winning Without Winning, page 9Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade detective character poignantly observed that the Maltese falcon was "the stuff dreams are made of.”
2013, Harvey Rachlin, Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha
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