noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fantasy football
pure fantasy/fiction (= something that is not true at all )
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He dismissed the allegations as ‘pure fantasy’.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
male
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These flatties were made by men and mainly for men, and trade on male fantasies .
private
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There is thus a connection between people's private fantasies and their status as autonomous individuals.
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It was fabulous, gorgeous in its excess, the ultimate realization of some untrammeled private fantasy .
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These fanatics used fame as a chance to impose their own loopy private fantasy world on pop kids' imagination.
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This was enough for Cassie to be getting on with, but soon another of her private fantasies was to be shattered.
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We all have our private dreams, fantasies and secrets.
pure
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Without that income, promises of better public services - that is, publicly financed services - are pure fantasy .
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Rather than offer pure fantasy , the fashion gurus rose to the challenge of suggesting truly flattering, appropriate and stylish options.
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Or possibly she had seen nothing at all, and it was pure fantasy .
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If not, the rest is pure fantasy .
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The subjects of these plays were pure fantasy , mingled with themes from wide reading.
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These charming ideas were almost certainly propaganda or pure fantasy , but it was not safe to discount any of them.
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It was pure fantasy and she knew it.
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For those who have not left for the roof, be advised that the above depiction is pure fantasy .
romantic
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The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
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These somewhat steamy romances feature a variety of contemporary problems all solved within an atmosphere of romantic fantasy .
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She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy .
■ NOUN
childhood
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But the convincing portrayal of childhood fantasies , fears and rituals is marred by the unnecessary melodramatic final sequence.
football
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Kev, that fantasy football stuff sounds quite good.
life
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The bloke was living a bit of a fantasy life .
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A highly sensitive child may immerse herself in the rich fantasy life of this phase, but then constantly scare herself.
world
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The relationship between dealer and client would often become a fantasy world , based on speculation presented as logic.
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You can wander through the fantasy worlds at your leisure, but you must examine your surroundings minutely and take copious notes.
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Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world .
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It has more to do with spinning a fantasy world , and Hollywood is rather childish about gay actors.
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These fanatics used fame as a chance to impose their own loopy private fantasy world on pop kids' imagination.
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He lived in a fantasy world of his own, even as a small boy.
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The Brontë children had a fantasy world , and C.S. Lewis and his brother.
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They continue to argue for what no one else is prepared to offer and they are wholly isolated in a fantasy world .
■ VERB
act
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As long as he believes you're on his side while he acts out his fantasy , he won't harm you.
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EastEnders, once renowned for gritty realism and giant characters, is now awash with pygmies acting out absurd leftish fantasies .
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In the Nursery the children can act out their fantasies or fears in the privacy of the house corner.
create
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Main: flat table lands with steep edges help create a Gothic fantasy landscape.
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Or are we creating a fantasy out of partial evidence and our own yearning?
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What does an actor think about when creating the fantasy of a journey into the belly of a beast?
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They had no wish to create some fantasy shaped in their own minds.
indulge
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The banks were used as limitless reservoirs to fertilise growth, indulge political fantasy and bribe the governments' friends.
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If people want to indulge in fantasies about the glories of nature, that is their business.
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Sometimes he would find himself indulging in fantasy , would picture them together in London in his new flat.
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And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants.
involve
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Mr. Murphy: Does not the so-called initiative for our valleys involve more fantasy than reality?
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Fashion involves fantasy , which brings us to another major direction for 1996.
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Alexander Vass was not the kind of man whom she was likely to involve in such a fantasy .
live
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It wants us to live out that gruesome fantasy , to find out whether we could handle it.
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Or living in a fantasy of wishful make-believe.
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Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world.
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He lived in a fantasy world of his own, even as a small boy.
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Whereas she lived in a fantasy of her own making.
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Only Daine wasn't just living out a fantasy .
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He lived a great deal in his fantasies and he enjoyed these.
play
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Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flight of fancy/imagination/fantasy
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A small, balding academic sort not given to flights of fancy, Kolodney wasted no words as he made his announcement.
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In their more extravagant flights of fancy the choice thus offered to the voter is extended to cover specific heads of policy.
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Many are flights of imagination and, because of the very nature of the area, subjective.
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Other routines are pure flights of fancy, all the more extraordinary for the very ordinary setting.
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Part of the achievement of the visionary comes from inspiration that arises from considering the highest flights of imagination.
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The legend - the romantic flight of fancy was over.
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There are some strange flights of fancy and there are also some extremely down to earth not to say earthy observations.
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This is not a flight of fancy.
retreat into yourself/your shell/fantasy etc
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I retreated into my shell, being painfully shy in the first place.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a young woman's romantic fantasies
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Everyone's fantasy is that one day they will win the National Lottery.
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My son seems to live in a fantasy world sometimes.
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Psychologists say that memories can sometimes be pure fantasy , rather than actual recollections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the fantasy performance, we, the individuals doing the fantasising, are left with some reactions to our fantasy.
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He tried to dislike her, but the first date had been like some strawberry-coated fantasy .
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Perhaps it's the fault of the Hollywood star system for neglecting its role of fantasy and glamour.
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The first was the students' attitudes toward their fantasies.