The phrase "a whimsical idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a notion or concept that is playful, fanciful, or imaginative, often in a lighthearted context.
Example: "She proposed a whimsical idea of hosting a tea party for the neighborhood cats, complete with tiny hats and treats."
Alternatives: "a fanciful notion" or "a playful concept."
It may seem like a whimsical idea, but it's fact.
'What seemed like a whimsical idea a few years ago can now be seen as possible.
It was a whimsical idea that resulted in important discussions between citizens and council members around community, surveillance and safety.
Allan Ripp Manhattan, Jan . 16To the Editor: If you're thinking of buying a cup of coffee at a Manhattan Starbucks, here's a whimsical idea: Go to the bank and exchange $2 for four rolls of pennies.
In three and a half years, Metaverse has grown from a whimsical idea hatched in a Second Life virtual bar into an agency that has been profitable since 2009 and had revenue "in the millions" last year, she says, declining to be more specific.
"It was a kind of a whimsical idea," Joys explains.
A belief that if a history of subjugation is tangled with a sanitised, whimsical idea of a time and place, then we should excuse all the viciousness that came with it.
A belief that if a history of subjugation is tangled with a sanitized, whimsical idea of a time and place, then we should excuse all the viciousness that came with it.
But Terrence Rafferty, in the Book Review, proclaimed the novel's pleasures "guilty ones," as Ruiz Zafón "spins a fantastically elaborate plot from a slender, whimsical idea," namely the notion that "a writer might, on a bad day, succumb to a sense of futility about the value of his calling, might begin to believe that the act of telling a story isn't just vain, but positively diabolical".
In "The Angel's Game," as in his previous novel, "The Shadow of the Wind," he spins a fantastically elaborate plot from a slender, whimsical idea.
"It started out as a purely whimsical idea, but when I told people about it everyone smiled.
