brilliant idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbrilliantandidea
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brilliant
adjective
uk/ˈbrɪl.jənt/us/ˈbrɪl.jənt/
extremely intelligent ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofbrilliantandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The planners got thebrilliantideathat they should widen and straighten the road, and that is just what they did, with public money.
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I think that this was abrilliantidea, because it was an accumulator.
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I thought that that was abrilliantidea.
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Let us try to establish whether it is abrilliantideabefore going ahead with it.
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It was abrilliantideaand unless the tide can be reversed it risks being destroyed by underfunding.
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I thought this was abrilliantidea.
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Why should such abrilliantideahave gone sour?
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I think that that is abrilliantidea.
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Very often the innovative breakthrough in technology is made here, but for some reason thebrilliantideaand the successful product are too infrequently connected.
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I was terribly impressed with thatbrilliantidea.
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The earlier proposal that we should have facilities on these trains is abrilliantidea.
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It was abrilliantidea, but it withered—like so many schemes that have been played out before and since.
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It would not be surprising if someone had come up with thebrilliantideaof a thumb tax, simply because it sounded vaguely familiar.
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The councillors tell the officers that they have thebrilliantideaof putting catering, cleaning or street cleaning out to tender.
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This is not abrilliantideaof mine.
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They will not apologise for having made a mistake, but they will have thebrilliantideaof helping some of those people to move.
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He hit upon the bright andbrilliantideaof minting more coinage to pay for any increased expenditure.
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Another friend of mine had abrilliantideafor microscopes with which one could look inside jet engines.
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It was abrilliantidea—no one can disagree with that—but, for obvious reasons, it did not happen.
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