Idioms with word idea

Like Parmenides, he is overpowered and intoxicated with the idea of Being or God.

But we may remark that it is the idea of experience, rather than experience itself, with which the mind is filled.

If, on the other hand, you have, in addition to the generalized image, particular images of the several appearances, sufficiently clear to be recognized as different, and as instances of the generalized picture, you will then not feel the generalized picture to be adequate to any one particular appearance, and you will be able to make it function as a general idea rather than a vague idea.

We say, «This is Smith,» but we do not say «This is man,» but «This is a man.» Thus we may say that a word embodies a vague idea when its effects are appropriate to an individual, but are the same for various similar individuals, while a word embodies a general idea when its effects are different from those appropriate to individuals.

The truth of this is sufficiently manifest from the single circumstance, that the philosophers of the schools accept as a maxim that there is nothing in the understanding which was not previously in the senses, in which however it is certain that the ideas of God and of the soul have never been; and it appears to me that they who make use of their imagination to comprehend these ideas do exactly the some thing as if, in order to hear sounds or smell odors, they strove to avail themselves of their eyes; unless indeed that there is this difference, that the sense of sight does not afford us an inferior assurance to those of smell or hearing; in place of which, neither our imagination nor our senses can give us assurance of anything unless our understanding intervene.

«Yes, monsieur le cardinal, and that is why I venture to call the idea courageous as well as devoted.

The virtues are based on justice, of which common honesty in buying and selling is the shadow, and justice is based on the idea of good, which is the harmony of the world, and is reflected both in the institutions of States and in motions of the heavenly bodies.

Only the following considerations can have led the historians to such a conclusion: (1) that history is written by learned men, and so it is natural and agreeable for them to think that the activity of their class supplies the basis of the movement of all humanity, just as a similar belief is natural and agreeable to traders, agriculturists, and soldiers (if they do not express it, that is merely because traders and soldiers do not write history), and (2) that spiritual activity, enlightenment, civilization, culture, ideas, are all indistinct, indefinite conceptions under whose banner it is very easy to use words having a still less definite meaning, and which can therefore be readily introduced into any theory.

Yet with the first glimmerings of consciousness persisted the one idea that he must gain to Skipper.

It’s an idea. Wait till you see Sarah, she’ll get the idea.

The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of engaging myself in my loathsome task in my father’s house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.

The most fundamental idea, the idea of existence, has not been received by me through sensation; indeed, there is no special sense-organ for the transmission of such an idea

Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution, and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity; an idea infused with the conviction that America’s journey long, heroic journey must go forever upward.

So long as the quality and the low prices can be maintained, here are two inexhaustible sources of wealth for the canton, which suggested to my mind the idea of establishing three fairs in the year.

The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.

ideas hamster

Дословно: хомяк, полный идей.
Генератор идей.

Why don’t you ask our ideas hamster? He knows how to help us.

Почему ты не спросишь нашего генератора идей? Он знает, как помочь нам.

put ideas into one’s head

To persuade someone to do something negative; put one up to something.

Billy would never have poured glue into his father’s shoes if the neighbor’s son hadn’t been putting ideas into his head.

the idea

the very idea

Used in exclamations to show that you do not like something.

The idea! Thinking Mother was my sister!

The very idea of Tom bringing that dirty dog into my clean house!

toy with an idea

toy with the idea

play around with

To consider an idea or an offer periodically without coming to a decision.

He was toying with the idea of accepting the company’s offer of the vice presidency in Tokyo, but he was unable to decide.

what’s the big idea

what’s the idea

What is the purpose; what do you have in mind; why did you do that; what are you doing; how dare you. Often used to question someone or something that is not welcome.

The Smith family painted their house red, white, and blue. What’s the big idea?

What’s the idea of coming in here after I told you not to?

I heard you are spreading false rumors about me, what’s the big idea?

«A goofy calf sucks two mothers! Be a bit goofy and you’ll be at home anywhere!» — Будь дураком и люди к тебе потянутся!

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not have the foggiest/faintest idea

1. не иметь ни малейшего представления/понятия
I haven’t got the faintest idea of what to buy them for Christmas. What’s the time, Bill? -I haven’t the foggiest idea.

bright idea

smart idea
блестящая мысль

catch the idea

get it
get the idea
have a clue
see the light
понять; уловить, ухватить (напр., мысль, суть, смысл)

foggiest idea, the

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

faintest idea, the

faintest notion, the
foggiest idea, the
foggiest notion, the
least idea, the
least notion, the
remotest idea, the
remotest notion, the
slightest idea, the
slightest notion, the
the faintest idea
the faintest notion
the foggiest idea
the foggiest notion
the least idea
the least notion
the remotest idea
the remotest notion
the slightest idea
the slightest notion
the vaguest idea
the vaguest notion
vaguest idea, the
vaguest notion, the
малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

get an idea across

четко изложить мысль

get the idea

понять; уловить, ухватить (мысль, суть, смысл)

have no idea

have no notion
no idea
no notion
не иметь представления; понятия не иметь

idea flashed across one’s mind, the

the idea flashed across one’s mind
кого-л. вдруг осенило

idea found lodgment in one’s mind, the

the idea found lodgment in one’s mind
мысль засела в чьем-л. мозгу, в чьей-л. памяти

intelligent idea

глубокая мысль

least idea, the

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

no idea

без понятия; никакого представления

the least idea

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

remotest idea, the

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

slightest idea, the

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

smart idea

блестящая мысль

vaguest idea, the

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

the faintest idea

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

the foggiest idea

малейшее понятие; смутное, приблизительное представление (обычно употребляется в отрицательных предложениях, напр. “I haven’t got…”: «Не имею ни малейшего…» — далее по тексту)

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Idea

Refers to a thought or suggestion as a course of action. 

1. Good Idea

Refers to something that is a positive thing to do or a positive thought.

  • Waiting to go to the store so late was not a good idea.
  • Do you think it’s a good idea to go?

2. Like the Idea

Mean that you think something someone said or did is a good thought or thing.

  • I like the idea of doing that.
  • I don’t know if I like the idea of you coming home so late.

3. Very Idea 

Is used to refer to a specific idea.

  • The very idea of going home makes me excited.
  • I think the very idea of doing that is crazy.

4. Have no Idea 

Is a way to say I don’t know.

  • I have no idea what you’re talking about.
  • She clearly has no idea what she’s doing.

5. Idea of Being

Refers to the thought of something. This is often used to point out the difference between someone actually wanting or thinking or feeling something and someone just liking the thought of doing, feeling, or thinking something.

In other words, this is used to speak about the thought of something, not the action of physically doing it.

  • I love the idea of being able to wake up early, but I just can’t seem to do it.
  • The idea of being in love is something a lot of people  fall in love with.

6. Have some Idea/ Have any Idea

Refers to having some kind of understanding about something. It can also be used to refer to someone having a thought as to how to handle a situation.

  • Do you have any idea what we should do about this man?
  • I have some idea of what you’re talking about.

7. Give an Idea

Means to share a thought about how something should be or how something should go.

  • Can you please give me an idea as to what you’d like for me to do.
  • We need someone to give us an idea, so that we can respond.

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8. Get the Idea 

Means that one understands something. This is sometimes used as a way to tell someone that they don’t have to keep explaining, you understand.

  • Ok, I get the idea.
  • I’d like to get an idea of what you’d like to do with your living room.

9. Idea How 

Refers to understanding how something happened.

  • I have no idea how we got here.
  • Do you have an idea how long this will take?

10. Idea Why 

Is a way of saying there is a lack of understanding.

  • I have no idea why he’s behaving in that way.
  • Do you have any idea why we have to meet so early in the morning?

11. Whole Idea 

Refers to understanding something completely.

  • I’m trying to understand the whole idea behind what you are saying.
  • I don’t understand the whole idea behind having to study history.

12. Basic Idea 

Refers to maybe not understanding everything, but understanding something in general terms. One doesn’t necessarily understand every detail, but they understand the general idea.

  • Just give me the basic idea, I don’t have time to learn everything.
  • He doesn’t really understand the basic idea of what I’m talking about.

13. Big Idea 

Refers to something that is an important idea or something that is larger in scope than anything else. It can also refer to the main idea.

  • The big idea behind what the mayor is saying sounds very good.
  • We need to come up with a big idea if the company is going to have a successful year.

14. Crazy Idea/Wild Idea 

Refers to an idea being out of the ordinary, or not what someone would expect. It can be used in a positive and negative way. This idea can be viewed in a postive or negative way.

  • I have a crazy idea, but hear me out.
  • I’m tired of listening to her and her crazy ideas.
  • I have the wildest idea.
  • There’s another one of her wild ideas.

15. Ridiculous Idea 

Means that an idea is seen in a negative way. It’s similar to a crazy idea, because it’s an unusual idea and not an ordinary idea. The difference is that a ridiculous idea is seen as something completely negative.

  • That was a ridiculous idea, I can’t believe you said that.
  • There are no ridiculous ideas, all ideas are welcome. 

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noun

any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.

a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.

an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.

an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.

a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.

a groundless supposition; fantasy.

Philosophy.

  1. a concept developed by the mind.
  2. a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.
  3. (initial capital letter)Platonism.Also called form . an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.
  4. Kantianism. idea of pure reason.

Music. a theme, phrase, or figure.

Obsolete.

  1. a likeness.
  2. a mental image.

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Origin of idea

First recorded in 1400–50; from Late Latin from Greek idéā “form, pattern,” equivalent to ide- (stem of ideîn “to see”) + feminine noun ending; replacing late Middle English idee from Middle French from Late Latin, as above; akin to wit1

historical usage of idea

English idea comes from one of Seneca’s Epistles (58), written about a.d. 64 during his retirement from Emperor Nero’s court, in which the Roman philosopher uses idea in the sense of “Platonic idea, eternal archetype.” Seneca wrote idea in Latin letters; the Roman orator Cicero, about a hundred years earlier, wrote the same word, with the same meaning, but in Greek letters. Plato used the perfectly ordinary Greek noun idéa “form, shape” as a term in logic meaning “classification, principle of classification,” and in his own metaphysics to mean “ideal form, prototype.” In fact, the earliest uses of idea in English show semantic overlap with ideal. The familiar and current meanings having to do with a mental conception, notion, or image first appeared in the late 16th century.
The Greek noun idéa comes from the very common, very complicated Proto-Indo-European root weid-, woid-, wid- “to see.” In Greek the variant woid- forms the verb oîda ( woîda in some dialects), meaning “I know.” (In form, oîda is a perfect tense used to show a present state: “I have seen, I know.”)
Woidos, a noun derived from woid-, becomes veda- “knowledge” in Sanskrit ( Rig-Veda means “knowledge of the hymns, sacred stanzas”). The variant wid- forms the Greek noun idéa, and the infinitive ideîn (also wideîn ), the Latin infinitive vidēre, and the Slavic (Czech) vidět, all meaning “to see.”
Weid-, woid-, wid- become wīt-, wait-, wit- in Germanic. The suffixed form wīt-to- forms the adjective wīsaz, Old English wīs (English wise ), and Old English wīsdōm “learning” (English wisdom ).

OTHER WORDS FROM idea

i·de·a·less, adjectivepre·i·de·a, nounsub·i·de·a, noun

Words nearby idea

ID card, IDD, iddhi, IDDM, IDE, idea, idea hamster, ideaistic, ideal, ideal crystal, ideal element

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An idea is any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity. How is idea different from thought, conception, and notion? Learn more on Thesaurus.com

Words related to idea

belief, concept, conclusion, design, feeling, form, intention, interpretation, meaning, notion, objective, opinion, perception, plan, scheme, sense, solution, suggestion, theory, thought

How to use idea in a sentence

  • Gin was just a flickering idea, the way some journos muse about writing novels.

  • As a means to help their patients talk about sexual freedom and risk-taking, sex therapists were using the idea of getting out of a physical comfort zone in the outdoors.

  • Bernard Azevedo, the terminated CPUC auditor who first alleged that $200 million was outstanding, said in an interview that he has been worried all along that the CPUC has little idea of what it is owed.

  • Finally, because lab testing reflects only a narrow percentage of real-life crashes, we have little idea about how realistic it is.

  • What’s particularly puzzling about Roy’s comments is this idea that mentioning Wright’s diagnosis is somehow partisan.

  • We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

  • The use of slurs from both characters makes it clear just how “new” the idea of an openly gay son is even in this time.

  • I like the idea of Jon Hamm… There have been discussions—though I’m not sure how serious they’ve been.

  • But at the heart of this “Truther” conspiracy theory is the idea that “someone” wants to destroy Bill Cosby.

  • “The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.

  • If you have any thoughts of influencing me or my men to join the regular Confederate army, you may as well give up the idea.

  • His idea was that there would be ample time later to order a concentration on either wing or on the centre.

  • I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

  • While Benjy sat contemplating this creature, and wondering what was to be the end of it all, a bright idea occurred to him.

  • This was such a ridiculous idea that Davy threw back his head, and laughed long and loud.

British Dictionary definitions for idea (1 of 2)


noun

any content of the mind, esp the conscious mind

the thought of somethingthe very idea appals me

a mental representation of somethingshe’s got a good idea of the layout of the factory

the characterization of something in general terms; conceptthe idea of a square circle is self-contradictory

an individual’s conception of somethinghis idea of honesty is not the same as yours and mine

the belief that something is the casehe has the idea that what he’s doing is right

a scheme, intention, plan, etchere’s my idea for the sales campaign

a vague notion or indication; inklinghe had no idea of what life would be like in Africa

significance or purposethe idea of the game is to discover the murderer

philosophy

  1. a private mental object, regarded as the immediate object of thought or perception
  2. a Platonic Idea or Form

music a thematic phrase or figure; motif

obsolete a mental image

get ideas to become ambitious, restless, etc

not one’s idea of not what one regards as (hard work, a holiday, etc)

that’s an idea that is worth considering

the very idea! that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc

Derived forms of idea

idealess, adjective

Word Origin for idea

C16: via Late Latin from Greek: model, pattern, notion, from idein to see

usage for idea

It is usually considered correct to say that someone has the idea of doing something, rather than the idea to do it: he had the idea of taking (not the idea to take) a short holiday

British Dictionary definitions for idea (2 of 2)

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see bright idea; put ideas in someone’s head; what’s the idea.

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Collocations for «idea»

Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word «idea» in context.

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idea

Most examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.

n

  1. [party, wardrobe, vacation] ideas
  2. an original idea
  3. was my own idea
  4. was my idea first
  5. have a [great, new] idea (for you)
  6. what a [great] idea!
  7. a great idea for a [business, flavor, dish]
  8. that is [a terrible, an awful] idea
  9. yes, that’s the [general, whole] idea
  10. hey, what’s the big idea!
  11. I just had an idea!
  12. am trying to come up with new ideas
  13. came up with a great idea (yesterday)
  14. whose (bright) idea was it to …?
  15. whose idea was this?
  16. it was [just, only] an idea
  17. she’s got the right idea
  18. don’t get the wrong idea (about)
  19. should give you [a rough, the general] idea
  20. the very idea makes me [sick, angry, want to vomit]
  21. [was shocked, almost fainted] at the very idea (of it)
  22. the idea of [going, asking, having to]
  23. the idea gives me the [shivers, chills, creeps]
  24. what (ever) gave you that idea?
  25. didn’t mean to give you that idea
  26. does anybody have any ideas?
  27. [I, you] have no idea what you are [talking about, saying, doing]
  28. I have no idea what you mean
  29. have no idea [how, where, when, why, how]
  30. do you have any idea what you [are doing, just said]?
  31. got the idea from a [book, movie]
  32. gave me the idea to [make, do, try]
  33. just to give you an idea
  34. [pondered, considered, mulled over] the idea
  35. they [rejected, liked, hated] the idea
  36. that gives me an idea!
  37. don’t put ideas in her head!
  38. is (not) my idea of [a good time, fun, entertainment]
  39. not one of your best ideas

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