"flight of fancy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain",
          "text": "Who might not, by a very easy flight of fancy, have believed that everything about him took this haunted tone, and that he lived on haunted ground?",
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          "ref": "1939 November 20, “Canadian Secrecy”, in Time",
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          "ref": "2016, Paul Gooding, Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis, page 183",
          "text": "Aguilar-Millan et al. published an ambitious flight of fancy which 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.",
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        "An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc., which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative."
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        "(idiomatic) An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc., which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative."
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          "word": "chase rainbows"
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          "word": "pie in the sky"
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