flight of fancy | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Anidea,narrative,suggestion, etc., which isextremelyimaginativeand whichappearsto beentirelyunrealistic,untrue, orimpractical;thinkingwhich is veryspeculative.Synonyms:daydream,reverie1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section VIII”, inA Tale of a Tub.[…], London:[…]John Nutt,[…],→OCLC,page154:And, whereas the mind of Man, when he gives the Spur and Bridle to his Thoughts, doth never ſtop, but naturally ſallies out into both extreams of High and Low, of Good and Evil, his firstFlight of Fancycommonly tranſports Him to Idea's of what is moſt Perfect, finiſhed, and exalted; [...]1848,Charles Dickens, chapter 1, inThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain:Who might not, by a very easyflight of fancy, have believed that everything about him took this haunted tone, and that he lived on haunted ground?1939November 20, “Canadian Secrecy”, inTime:No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotestflight of fancycould alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.2016, Paul Gooding,Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis,→ISBN,page183:Aguilar-Millanet al.published an ambitiousflight of fancywhich explored the “post-scarcity world” of 2050 in light of technical advancements which they argue will decrease costs to providers until almost everything becomes free to the end user.

Examples:

EN: I don't think the lady can quite describe herself as ordinary... after that little flight of fancy.
ES: No me parece que esta mujer pueda calificarse como corriente después de semejante alarde de fantasía.
EN: That flight of fancy you put forth at dinner, I must confess, it startled me.
ES: Esa salida de tono que se produjo en la cena, confieso que me sorprendió.
EN: I'm sorry to hear you say that, sir, because it was not a flight of fancy.
ES: Siento oírselo decir, señor, porque no fue una salida de tono.
EN: Just talking. Just a flight of fancy.
ES: Sólo hablaba por hablar.
EN: What a marvellous flight of fancy, Chief inspector
ES: Qué maravillosa fantasía, inspector.
EN: To you this may have been a flight of fancy but Maggie has to live with the consequences.
ES: Joel, para ti puede que esto sea una de tus correrías, pero Maggie debe vivir con las consecuencias.
EN: It took Lieutenant Torres half the night to stabilize my matrix, but I haven't had a single flight of fancy since.
ES: Le tomó la mitad de la noche a la Teniente Torres estabilizar mi matriz pero no he tenido ni una sola ilusión más, desde entonces.
EN: You may have written this as a flight of fancy... but there are a lot of people out there who would like nothing better... than to destroy the pride and prestige... and self-esteem that this win has brought the school.
ES: Pudiste haberlo escrito en un arranque de fantasía... pero hay mucha gente a la que le encantaría... destruir el orgullo, el prestigio... y la dignidad que esta victoria le ha brindado a la escuela.
EN: You put a guy on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals who called sexual harassment a flight of fancy for the overindulged.
ES: Pusiste a alguien en el Tribunal de Apelaciones que piensa que el acoso sexual es para los mimados.
EN: Assist me in a flight of fancy, gentlemen.
ES: Asístanme en una idea, caballeros.
EN: It's, it's not like I sit around daydreaming about it, or I have some... fantastic flight of fancy about some perfect man or...
ES: No es que me pare a soñarlo con los ojos abiertos, o que tenga alguna desenfrenada fantasía sobre algún... hombre perfecto o...
EN: Which could ju as easily result from indulging mr. Stone's flight of fancy.
ES: Que podría ser fácilmente el resultado de la imaginación del Sr. Stone.
EN: Our "hypothetical flight of fancy."
ES: Nuestra "hipotética fantasía extravagante"
EN: A flight of fancy, sir.
ES: Un vuelo de la fantasía, señor.
EN: - What? Are you ready to call an end to this little flight of fancy?
ES: ¿Estás lista para ponerle fin a este mundo de fantasía?

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