figment of one's imagination

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Idioms and Phrases

Something made up, invented, or fabricated, as in “The long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature were figments of imagination” (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre , 1847). This term is redundant, since figment means “product of the imagination.” [Early 1800s]

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