be a figment of imagination



be a figment of your/the imagination

if something is a figment of your imagination, it seems real although it is not I thought I saw someone standing in the shadows, but it was just a figment of my imagination.
See also: figment, imagination, of

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Lucineh-Armenian
Kamal (2)-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Bartol-Croatian (Rare)
Gudmund-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Magee[mə'gi:]
Eneko-Basque