bad idea

collocation in English

meanings of badand idea

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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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Examples of bad idea

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The badidea was the mistaken belief that the granularity of laziness should be as fine as possible.
We decided to put out a statement and say that it was a badidea and why.
Unfortunately, its implementation of laziness contained a badidea.
The basic principle is that giving learners clear access to relevant information is never a badidea.
Urging physicians to serve society better by serving individuals just a bit less faithfully is a distinctly badidea, and hardly new.
This explains why cross-modular processing is unusual - it is generally a badidea.
Exporting it would even be a badidea.
For example, it is a very badidea to first choose the value of defined criteria such as the price of the resulting configuration.
Roundtables often conclude conferences instead of opening them, but perhaps it is not a badidea to have one at the beginning.
Both logic and statistics would lead targets to the conclusion that adopting the advocated behavior would be a badidea.
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 rather badidea.
Paying physicians to provide high quality care is not an inherently badidea, but it puts the focus even further on money as a prime goal in patient care.
I do not see that as such a badidea.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Perhaps minimum targets for each material is not a badidea.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
And my very last point, we consider it a badidea to take the funding for all this from the arable farming sector.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
That is a very badidea.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
That is why this is a badidea.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
If the greater is absolutely impossible, however, sometimes it is not a badidea to go for the lesser.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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