Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty, were he a real person, would have reason to be puzzled.

In other cases, what you get is more like Walter Mitty.

All the rest is a sort of Walter Mitty thing."

"It really was kind of a Walter Mitty fantasy thing."

But Walter Mitty also embodies two very different kinds of men.

"I feel a little like Walter Mitty getting this."

Walter Mitty took the gun and examined it expertly.

Many men basically have a Walter Mitty attitude to housework.

"But I guess there's a little Walter Mitty in all of us."

Did Walter Mitty ever have it so good?

Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly and the bickering attorneys were stilled.

The guy at the control console appeared to pose about the same threat as Walter Mitty.

It is the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty."

Others like living out their Walter Mitty fantasies but say they carefully weigh the dangers.

"Reggie", as he is known, daydreams in Walter Mitty style.

He made Walter Mitty look like a pragmatist.

But they, like the fictional Walter Mitty, dreamed.

"They are fulfilling our own Walter Mitty dreams.

Woods is not the only contemporary golfer, by the way, to throw down his clubs and take a little Walter Mitty holiday.

The others could probably be described as the "Walter Mitty" editions, except that the term is perhaps too gender-specific.

If he reports an exasperated man is saying, "Another day in the life of Walter Mitty.

And performing as a stand-up comic, he said, "was one of my Walter Mitty ideals."

'At this time, I was living in a sort of Walter Mitty world.

Walter Mitty and I have this dream.

He's Walter Mitty with a platinum card.