fanciful idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffancifulandidea
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fanciful
adjective
uk/ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/us/ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/
not likely to succeed or happen in the ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition offancifulandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Bradley is refreshingly critical of some of the less than saintly motives of the early revivals and some of the more fanciful ideas appearing in the later ones.
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They imagined, quite erroneously, that this was somefancifulideaof a number of visionary people.
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They have come up with thefancifulideathat we can recycle everything, but goodness knows where all that recycling is to take place.
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I cannot presume to agree with him that that is due to the postal vote; that is an entirelyfancifulidea.
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It might be afancifulidea, but it was worth investigating.
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We are not raising this as afancifulideaor as a spectre.
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I am not one of those who believe that we should move towards the morefancifulideaof monetary union.
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The public can see through this particularfancifulidea.
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This is not afancifulidea.
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It seems to me a ratherfancifulideathat you can get an extra 200,000 passengers on that route without affecting the loading of other carriers.
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It is afancifulideathat somehow one could transfer the cost to the centre while still leaving local authorities entirely free to decide what to do with the money.
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That is not afancifulidea.
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Bradley is refreshingly critical of some of the less than saintly motives of the early revivals and some of the more fanciful ideas appearing in the later ones.
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Many of the architects were young and full of fanciful ideas and continually changing the plans after the work had been started.
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There are also the more fanciful ideas of free suits and similar items.
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Now they draw on their great reservoir of imagination and come up with fanciful ideas of a patients' charter.
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Rather than scientific articles or fanciful ideas, we need better innovation, which is something quite different.
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