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词汇 flight-of-fancy
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flight of fancy


idiom
an idea that shows a lot of imagination but is not practical: 异想天开;想入非非
He was talking about cycling across the US or was that just another flight of fancy?他正在谈论骑自行车横穿美国,这又是一次异想天开吗?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unreal things and unreality
alternate reality
alternative reality
birther
cloud cuckoo land
delusion
fairyland
fallacy
false hopes
falsity
fantasy
la-la land
make believephrase
never-never land
non-fact
non-factual
phantom
pie
pie in the skyidiom
unreality
untruth

Examples of flight of fancy


flight of fancy
Linguistic fact or lexicographer's flightoffancy, the etymology is ingenious enough at least to merit consideration.
That was not a flightoffancy: it was the fact.
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This is not a flightoffancy on my part.
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I do not think that is a flightoffancy.
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I think that that is a flightoffancy.
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I think it is a flightoffancy to suggest that there are many millionaires owning these down-at-heel houses.
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Then he will realise that that flightoffancy was not worthy of even the rest of his argument.
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I doubt whether we need spend much time on that weird flightoffancy.
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I do not think that this line of thought is a flightoffancy or even just a possibility.
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We are all of us sorry for both, but to put them in the same category seems rather a flightoffancy.
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It is not a short-term flightoffancy.
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That flightoffancy has now become a reality.
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This is no flightoffancy.
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Perhaps that is a flightoffancy.
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It was not a flightoffancy.
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