My translator has not been giving a result for spinning which makes sense in the following sentence:
He was spinning drunken fantasies of something.
Translator said that the "spinning" is a part of fish-rod device. It is nonsense in my case :). Any ideas?
It is derived from the idiom spinning a yarn which means telling a story.
Woollen yarn is spun from the wool. The word yarn can also mean a story, particularly a spoken tale. Thus, spinning a yarn is used to describe someone telling a story.
By extension, your quotation relates to drunken ramblings, telling a story, spinning fantasies.
