ivory tower | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Asheltered, overly-academicexistence orperspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness ofrealityorpracticalconsiderations.Such a proposal looks fine from anivory tower, but it could never work in real life.2005, Daniel Walker,Valedictory speech for Hamilton College:Hamilton College is anivory towerwith an open bar, and so I - who work and play equally hard - have come to love this place, and have been dead-set against leaving it.2013July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume408, number8845:Since the launch early last year of[…]two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, theivory towersof academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

Examples:

EN: Your mouth, Jokanaan, is like a scarlet ribbon in an ivory tower!
ES: ¡Tu boca, Jokanaan, es como una cinta escarlata en una torre de marfil!
EN: Now that you're home again, promise me that you'll stay in your own ivory tower and be very noncommittal about yourself and Stephen.
ES: Ahora que estás de vuelta, prométeme que te mantendrás en tu torre de marfil y que serás evasiva sobre ti o Stephen.
EN: Why, I'm gonna build you an ivory tower with my own two hands.
ES: Te voy a construir una torre de marfil con mis propias manos.
EN: A Princess in her ivory tower ..
ES: ¿Una princesa que vive en una torre de marfil?
EN: Both feet on the ground, no ivory tower.
ES: Los pies en la tierra, nada de torres de marfil.
EN: You talk about wanting to help me but what you want is to drag me into your ivory tower.
ES: Hablas de que quieres ayudarme pero lo que quieres es arrastrarme a tu torre de marfil.
EN: Resplendent ivory tower!
ES: ¡Torre gloriosa!
EN: There goes one reason for my ivory tower.
ES: Ese hombre se moría por mis huesos. ¿Qué?
EN: - Welcome to our ivory tower.
ES: - Bienvenida a nuestra torre de marfil. Gracias.
EN: And I wish some of you ivory tower people would stop trying to be so smart.
ES: Me gustaría que todos Uds. los de la torre de marfil dejaran de hacerse los listos de una vez.
EN: Randy, I think you're under the impression I've been living in an ivory tower all these years.
ES: Randy, creo que tienes la impresión de que he estado viviendo en una torre de marfil todos estos años.
EN: - Because you've retreated to a tower, and the only trouble with an ivory tower is it's a temptation to lightning.
ES: - Porque está usted en una torre, y lo malo de una torre de marfil es que suele atraer los rayos.
EN: In England, I'd keep you locked up in an ivory tower, guarded by trusted servants, and I'd have the only key.
ES: Allí te encerraría en una torre de marfil guardada por mis sirvientes más leales y yo tendría la única llave.
EN: Easy for you, in your ivory tower!
ES: En esa torre de marfil donde te has encerrado todo resulta fácil.
EN: A library complete with ivory tower.
ES: Una biblioteca con torre de marfil.

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