ivory tower
noun [C] disapprovingDefinition
› To live or be in an ivory tower is not to know about or to want to avoid the ordinary and unpleasant things that happen in people's lives: Academics sitting in ivory towers have no understanding of what is important for ordinary people.AwareSchools in general
(Definition of ivory tower noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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