phrase

• Believe mistakenly that.

  ‘the world is under the illusion that the original painting still hangs in the Winter Palace’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘No one should be under the illusion that because a plan exists in one form today that it will be that way forever,’ he said.’
  • ‘The Popular Unity's supporters were under the illusion that once in power it would fulfil the promise of profound political and socio-economic change.’
  • ‘Progressives have been under the illusion that if only people understood the facts, we'd be fine.’
  • ‘Postulating that state leads you to surmise that because this disavowal operation swings into place, the spectator must be under the illusion that what she sees at a fiction film is the real thing.’
  • ‘None of the audiences that came to John Bentley's School Hall for the four nights last week were under the illusion that the show was anything but amateur.’
  • ‘Many farmers were under the illusion that an accident can not and will not happen on their farm.’
  • ‘We were under the illusion that you could open the floodgates just as much as we wanted and no more.’
  • ‘I was under the illusion that things were getting better.’
  • ‘But nobody, including the minister, was under the illusion that this was anything other than pathetic.’
  • ‘If this woman is under the illusion that telling truth to power comes without costs, she doesn't deserve to represent any one.’