bad idea

collocation in English

meaningsofbadandidea

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withidea.
bad
adjective
uk
/bæd/us
/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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idea
noun
uk
/aɪˈdɪə/us
/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofbadandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbad idea

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Thebadideawas the mistaken belief that the granularity of laziness should be as fine as possible.
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We decided to put out a statement and say that it was abadideaand why.
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Unfortunately, its implementation of laziness contained abadidea.
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The basic principle is that giving learners clear access to relevant information is never abadidea.
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Urging physicians to serve society better by serving individuals just a bit less faithfully is a distinctlybadidea, and hardly new.
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This explains why cross-modular processing is unusual - it is generally abadidea.
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Exporting it would even be abadidea.
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For example, it is a verybadideato first choose the value of defined criteria such as the price of the resulting configuration.
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Roundtables often conclude conferences instead of opening them, but perhaps it is not abadideato have one at the beginning.
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Both logic and statistics would lead targets to the conclusion that adopting the advocated behavior would be abadidea.
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This conjecture is refuted by the following example, which is also representative for a more significant class of problems for which full accumulation seems a ratherbadidea.
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Paying physicians to provide high quality care is not an inherentlybadidea, but it puts the focus even further on money as a prime goal in patient care.
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I do not see that as such abadidea.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Perhaps minimum targets for each material is not abadidea.
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And my very last point, we consider it abadideato take the funding for all this from the arable farming sector.
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That is a verybadidea.
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That is why this is abadidea.
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Hansard archive
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If the greater is absolutely impossible, however, sometimes it is not abadideato go for the lesser.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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