VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Flight of fancy

Meaning:

If your idea is described as a flight of fancy, it is an imaginative but entirely unrealistic idea.

Examples:

  • What is a flight of fancy of knowledge?
  • – I voted against the joint resolution on the planned egg trade, which is little more than a flight of fancy.
  • Are you ready to call an end to this little flight of fancy?
  • Are you ready to call an end to this little flight of fancy?
  • A flight of fancy, sir.
  • I'm sorry to hear you say that, sir, because it was not a flight of fancy.
  • Your flight of fancy may be tickled with the touches of whimsy all the way through.
  • To you this may have been a flight of fancy but Maggie has to live with the consequences.
  • There were those who described the arguments of Commissioner Fischler at the Cork Conference as a flight of fancy, an utopian view of the future.
  • It has a record of assisting peace and prosperity among European nations and beyond, when history seemed to insist that such a goal amounted to little more than a flight of fancy.