"Blue sky thinking" phrase
Solution 1:
Blue sky thinking is business jargon for a sort of brainstorming or analysis that is uninhibited by the cruft and complexity of tedious and confusing reality. It is supposed to be optimistic, non-judgmental and intended to generate ideas that while not necessarily realistic might help define ideal goals or higher standards.
It's a ghastly cliche whose meaning is opaque.
Solution 2:
This is the google top link for "blue sky thinking", with or without quotes.
- thinking that is not grounded or in touch in the realities of the present.
What's not appropriate about this result?
Solution 3:
I was an adman at a New York-based ad agency, called McCann Erickson, where I worked more than 30 years, until 1995.
We used to use the word, "blue sky thinking" very often at that time, in the meaning of "free and original way of thinking" without ceiling - restraint by anybody else at an occasion such as "brain-storming" working sessions. We used it in a productive and pro-active sense as against whimsical, irresponsible idea generation. It could have been an advertising jargon, or a kind of sociolect, and I'm not sure whether it still applies. But we used this word in this sense for certain.