WHAT'S THE IDEA Definition & Meaning

what's the idea

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Also, what's the big idea ; the very idea . What do you think you are doing? What foolishness do you have in mind? For example, What's the idea of taking the car without permission ? or You've invited yourself along? What's the big idea? or Take a two-year-old up Mount Washington? The very idea! These phrases, all implying the speaker's disapproval, use idea in the sense of “what one has in mind.” The first two date from about 1900; the third is heard more in Britain than America.

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“What’s the idea of this government? There is no pact.”

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What’s the idea behind your argument?

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In a tweet on Thursday morning, the pub chain asked the retailer "what's the idea with these T-shirts!?"

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“My Gramsy always says it’s raining cats and dogs, but what does that even mean, anyway? … It makes just as much sense to say it’s raining giraffes and naked mole rats. … Why not say it’s raining crayons and spatulas? And what’s the idea with umbrellas anyway?”

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Nobody had done it before, so what’s the idea?

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