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flight of fancy
Idioms and Phrases
An unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream. For example, She engaged in flights of fancy, such as owning a million-dollar house . This idiom uses flight in the sense of “a soaring of the imagination,†a usage dating from the mid-1600s.Example Sentences
Last year, writing in a case in which his colleagues reversed a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that had blocked the distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide, Ho engaged in what I called a “curious flight of fancy†to advocate for the ban.
This was nothing but a flight of fancy: The price of a Happy Meal in California ranges from $4 to $8 today, depending on its content and size.
We say it’s Flight of Fancy Friday and we just have flights of fancy.
That that is a flight of fancy.
Few of them, however, match form and content like this flight of fancy from the director Geoff Marslett, who co-wrote the screenplay with the indie-rock stalwart Howe Gelb.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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