desert island
Noun
Meaning
A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and (now frequently misunderstood as) a small and almost entirely sandy desert.
What would I take with me to a desert island?
An island that is completely or mostly a desert, an arid island.
Why are you marooning me on a desert island? It's probably full of guano. Can't I go somewhere nice?
(figuratively, attributive) Describing a thing considered so personally indispensable or beloved that one could never tire of it, used especially for books and music.
No, no, no. It's a thought experiment. Your desert island books are the one or five or ten books that you could always learn from and never get sick of.
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Examples
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Bod said, "I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused, and thought. "I want everything."
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.