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

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.

From Los Angeles Times

We say it’s Flight of Fancy Friday and we just have flights of fancy.

From Los Angeles Times

That that is a flight of fancy.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

"While it might feel like nu-Mean Girls comes with a lot of sparkly pink baggage attached, in the event, from the zippy opening prologue number onwards, it's very much a case of speedy boarding onto a first-class flight of fancy that requires zero familiarity with previous incarnations, but which manages to simultaneously reward loyalists with some decent inside jokes."

From BBC