What Does “flight of fancy” mean?
Definition:
If your idea is described as a flight of fancy, it is an imaginative but entirely unrealistic idea.
Origin
This idiom refers to suggestions, ideas, or statements as a flight of fancy because they are as irrealistic as the imagination when it takes off.
The idiom has been used since the mid-1600s.
Synonyms of the phrase include: daydream, reverie.
Example(s)
I had a flight of fancy of becoming a champion of the world in boxing in spite of my weak body disposition.
He will never be elected president because his campaign is full of flights of fancy.
He engaged in flights of fancy such as winning the lottery and buying a jet.
This idiom is in the travel category.
