1 The scheme seems a bit airy-fairy to me.

2 I know this sounds airy-fairy, but there is truth to it.

3 This may all sound a bit airy-fairy given that so many companies are struggling just to survive the recession.

4 No dreamy airy-fairy world. Don't let them float about. Give them reality. They can be poets, but use real images like Blake did.

5 She's talking about selling her house and buying an old castle in Ireland. It all sounds a bit airy-fairy to me.

6 They have frequently left devastation in their wake and have treated the public sector as dumping grounds for airy-fairy ideas such as "transformation" that have been rejected by the private sector.

7 He was supposed to give us advice, but all he came up with were airy-fairy ideas.

8 He was supposed to give us advice, but this ideas were airy-fairy ideas.

9 He agreed with parts of Ferguson's take on the economic fundamentals, but seemed to regard Ferguson's analysis of the Chinese psychology as airy-fairy academic theorizing.