never-never


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He awakens Wendy and the boys, sprinkles pixie dust and tells them all to "think lovely thoughts.'' And this propels them all to Never-Never Land ...
'We're three months behind with the rates and the electric, two months behind payments for the chest freezer on the never-never. Got the phone bill outstanding for the quarter.
I would take some laughs on the never-never right now.
We also need to track cases on a statewide basis to catch cases languishing in never-never land and to make sure the additional monies are being used efficiently.
It may be an odd sentiment to express, given the tens of thousands of human casualties of the recessionary years, but the crash of October 2008 should surely now be seen as a welcome turning point in UK economic history, when the worst excesses of the banks were exposed as never-never land policies.
It's ironic, but fairly typical of the Anglican Church of Canada, that at the top of the front page, the words "Council of General Synod looks to the future" is printed over a never-never bucolic scene of a village with a spired church building at its centre.
When all the cash borrowed on the never-never finally does run out - that's when we'll know what a financial crisis really feels like.
There are only so many pound shops, charity and shops on the never-never. Just look at Middlesbrough town centre now, it's getting like Stockton.
Larry Clark's never-never land is the everyman's nightmare.
They should be listened to, as opposed to the siren voices of those who thought that the never-never gravy train of sinfully overpriced house prices would last forever.
This leap into an etymological Never-never Land reminds me of the New Math my kids were bludgeoned with in the 1960s.
With 78 million boomers hitting retirement age and seniors-only communities recruiting 55-year-olds, Blechman raises the prospect of a significant portion of the population retiring into never-never land.
And sold the White House to a rancher on the never-never for annual payments of EUR100,000.
You will all know of course that it was the home of Jeannie Gunn whose books The Little Black Princess and We of the Never-Never made her famous.