figment of one's imagination

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Some of those comments were made by individuals who weren't even a figment of one's imagination in 1952 when a young Queen ascended the throne.

From BBC

In fact, responsible journalism today seems to be a figment of one's imagination, and has gone the way of the Dodo Bird.

From New York Times

We no longer had to subsist upon fragments of unsubstantial suppositions; Tracy was a person, not a figment of one's imagination.

From Project Gutenberg