flight of fancy

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.

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.

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.

We say it’s Flight of Fancy Friday and we just have flights of fancy.

That that is a flight of fancy.