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Imagination doing the steering while reality rides shotgun, sulking.
means Existing only in the imagination, or decorated with whimsical invention rather than grounded in fact.
from From fancy, itself a worn-down medieval shortening of fantasy, from Greek phantasia, a making-visible — your mind's private theater since the 1600s.
Sister wordFancy began as fantasy, then lost its middle.
Double dutyMeans both unreal and elaborately ornamental.
Tonal twistPraise for a hat, an insult for a plan.