flight of fancy

1. 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

Lest this all seem like a flight of fancy, who would have thought that hanging would have remained an authorized punishment in New Hampshire and Washington well into the 21st century, or that we would again be witnessing firing-squad executions of the kind South Carolina recently carried out and that are also legal in Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah.

From Slate

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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