airy-fairy Meaning overly idealistic, lacking down-to-ear | English Language

airy-fairy


Meaning
overly idealistic, lacking down-to-earth common sense


For example

When hippies appeared in the sixties, their ideas about peace and love were called airy-fairy nonsense.

Johnny reckons the New Age people he sometimes meets talk about airy-fairy stuff like "aura healings" and "past-life therapy".
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