harebrained ideas. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I know he -- talked all kind of harebrained, talk a lot of garbage, sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2007] Reference
Manchester United manager has dismissed the idea of introducing play-offs to determine the final Champions League place as "harebrained". From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
Well, if this harebrained scheme takes off, he will. From Wordnik.com. [Parking Goes to Highest Bidder] Reference
Don't give me any more of your harebrained schemes. '. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Actually, they're normal responses to a harebrained scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Is Condoleeza Rice Really Our Last Best Hope -- all that stands between us and war with Iran?] Reference
You can call me self-righteous, or harebrained or a windbag. From Wordnik.com. [A Physician's Lament] Reference
If he hadn't tried that harebrained sudden deceleration. From Wordnik.com. [Slingshot] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'War Czar': Another harebrained scheme. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'War Czar': Another harebrained scheme] Reference
Why oh why are they always concocting these harebrained schemes?. From Wordnik.com. [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference
Reflection is a harebrained handmaid of the day-to-day corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [To No Avail] Reference
By "me-tooing" every harebrained tax giveaway scheme McCain launches?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Goes Up In Indiana With Second Ad Responding To Hillary's Gas Spot] Reference
How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself?. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
"It is a harebrained, dangerous scheme," began Drew; then he switched to a question. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
"My wife's used to my harebrained schemes -- she usually rolls her eyes," Breen says. From Wordnik.com. [Cartoonist Steve Breen has crude response to gulf oil spill] Reference
Rafe, reckless and harebrained as he was, flew over the logs as sure-footed as a goat. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Down the drain, because apart from its being a harebrained scheme, Junior lost interest. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Otherwise they might conceivably waste the taxpayers 'money in harebrained schemes, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Huckabee On 1992 AIDS Stance: "Safety First, Political Correctness Last"] Reference
"I don't know what sort of harebrained idea has gotten into their feeble minds," said Placer. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
In 1941 a few of these young officers were toying with a harebrained scheme for abducting Hitler. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
The people of South Africa are still paying the high price exacted for those harebrained schemes. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT ON THE IFP CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS] Reference
"My wife's used to my harebrained schemes -- she usually rolls her eyes," Breen tells Comic Riffs. From Wordnik.com. [WORKING IN OILS: Pulitzer winner STEVE BREEN visits Gulf to create 'spill' cartoons out of BP's own crude] Reference
Few are paying attention to tomorrow and even those who do often come up with harebrained schemes. From Wordnik.com. [The Self-Inflicted Economic Death of Ohio] Reference
Then followed an act of heroism and harebrained enterprise which is now the talk of the whole army. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
If only because I thought this latest harebrained plan of hers might actually have been a good idea. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
Post-bubble Silicon Valley tries hard to avoid the harebrained excesses that led to dot-bomb disasters. From Wordnik.com. [Silicon Valley Reboots] Reference
But the most plausible explanation is that Ruby was trying to horn in on more harebrained moneymaking schemes. From Wordnik.com. ['I Wanted To Be A Hero'] Reference
Just when you think these people can't possibly get more lame, they come up with some harebrained whine like this. From Wordnik.com. [Whoops! GOPers Attack Obama For Flying In Aircraft He Criticized -- But McCain Did Same!] Reference
"Maybe I should not be surprised at this harebrained idiocy from you three, but I thought others had more judgment.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Some of them think that it's incredulous that the U.S. would try to do such, as one of them put it, "a harebrained idea.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2002] Reference
"But it is a harebrained notion to draw from that mere observation the conclusion that Sophie is fond of him," Eden said. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
He said these result mostly from the application of mechanisms, distortions, and harebrained schemes alien to culture essence. From Wordnik.com. [FIFTH UJC CONGRESS] Reference
She was smiling at him with an eagerness he had seen before, usually when she was about to suggest some mad, harebrained scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
All these statements that the imperialist spokesmen -- generals and civilians -- make in such a harebrained manner, what do they mean?. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH CLOSING CULTURAL CONGRESS] Reference
And I found her startling endorsement of Obama rather harebrained, as she's never been one to offer much in the way of political acumen. From Wordnik.com. [Claudia Gryvatz Copquin: Now's The Time For Oprah To Discuss Critical Issues Affecting Women In This Election] Reference
If her editor hadn't phoned her to "check on progress," she'd never have set off on this harebrained literary excursion in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
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