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in your dreams!

humorous

Definition

something you say to someone who has just told you about something they are hoping for, in order to show that you do not believe it will happen
Dave, buy you a car? In your dreams!

(Definition of in your dreams! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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