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means An imagined future place or state — often just out of reach — where all the striving and sacrifice is supposed to finally pay off.

from Straight from the Hebrew Bible: the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants, the destination Moses led the Israelites toward through the wilderness — though Moses himself only glimpsed it from a mountaintop and never set foot there. That image of a destination always one horizon away, reached only after decades of wandering and sacrifice, is why the phrase slid out of scripture and into ordinary speech for any hoped-for better place still just out of reach.