be miles away
mainly UKto not be conscious of what is happening around you because you are thinking about something else:
You could tell by the expression on her face that she was miles away, thinking about home.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing things idiom
- daydream
- daydreaming
- daze
- dream
- dreamer
- fantasist
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- hallucination
- hallucinatory
- in a dream idiom
- nightmare
- optical illusion
- out of 2
- out of it idiom
- reverie
- thing
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