Idiom
blue-sky thinking
Meaning
A form of thinking that is not grounded or in touch with the realities of the present, and can thus benefit from creative imagination.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The team did some blue-sky thinking to find new ideas.”
“In our meeting, we spent an hour on blue-sky thinking before we looked at costs.”
“The architect encouraged blue-sky thinking at the early stage, knowing that practical constraints would inevitably narrow the vision later.”
Examples
simple
“The team did some blue-sky thinking to find new ideas.”
contextual
“In our meeting, we spent an hour on blue-sky thinking before we looked at costs.”
complex
“The architect encouraged blue-sky thinking at the early stage, knowing that practical constraints would inevitably narrow the vision later.”
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