Crossword clues for flight of fancy
flight of fancy
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc. which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.
Wikipedia
Flight of Fancy is a 2000 Puerto Rican film in which a young single mother, Mercedes, is about to marry solid, dependable Frank, when a dashing aviator, Clay, comes into her life. But when pilot Clay crash-lands on a small, remote island he sends the inhabitants into a tailspin.
Usage examples of "flight of fancy".
It was by no means too great a flight of fancy to believe that a giant picture was stretched out before me.
In any case: the ensuing flight of fancy has cost friend Hunter a broken head and Mr.
It meant that some great nobleman was about to fight, perhaps even a king, and Myrrima had a flight of fancy in which she imagined briefly that young Gaborn would do battle.
Time after time only the seemingly miraculous working-out of some obvious flight of fancy had prevented Hazleton's being jettisoned by the blindly logical City Fathers.
This flight of fancy was so pathetic, and so unlike Emerson's usual style of speaking, that it was with difficulty that I prevented myself from flinging my arms about him.
After this flight of fancy he could contain himself no longer, and burst into a guffaw.
He'd postponed and postponed it because the letter did not pose the flight of fancy it seemed on the surface.
Don't ignore him, but don't trade your dignity and self-respect for some unsupportable foolish flight of fancy.