Building castles in Spain is an idiom meaning to make plans
that you know will never be realized. I’ve made several blocks like this one, and
each time I find myself humming the tune that Barnaby (Ray Bolger) sings to Mary
Contrary (Annette Funicello) in Disney’s Babes in Toyland: “In our castle in
Spain, you’ll be living rent-free. Every capital gain, you’ll share with me.
From this village below, every cent we will drain, and our fortune will grow in
our castle in Spain. Every mortgage and lease, I will re-valuate, and for you
I’ll increase their interest rate. You’ll eat nothing but cake, you’ll drink
naught but champagne, you’ll be in on the take in our castle in Spain. Surely,
you must agree that it makes you head whirl to be marrying me, you lucky girl.
You have caught me today in a generous vein. Come now, what do you say to our
castle in Spain?”
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