big idea
any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
purpose; intention; aim: What's the big idea of shouting at me?
Origin of big idea
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How to use big idea in a sentence
This is my big idea in How Sex Became a Civil Liberty: We made it up.
The big idea is that geography explains why the West rules the world—and why its domination may not last much longer.
Every big idea he has is a liberal idea that drowns us in debt.
President Obama's big idea is that government investment will trigger demand for skilled American labor.
Remember when the big idea in Obamaland was to run against the do-nothing Congress?
Michael Tomasky: Is Barack Obama Too Weak to Win in November? | Michael Tomasky | June 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He talks nonsense some of the time, but occasionally he knocks me down with a big idea—or his way of putting a big idea.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson"I say, Maggie, what was the big idea in keeping us—" he was beginning in a grumbling tone, when he saw Larry just beyond her.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy ScottThe big idea was, of course, that where gold is found the white man comes along, and the Indian he has to move.
Stepsons of Light | Eugene Manlove RhodesHe always did that when he was thinking hard, and now that the "big idea" had come to him he was thinking harder than ever.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm | Laura Lee HopeThe big idea now is to get Ivan Nikolsk to a good Russian hospital, and get him there fast.
Dave Dawson on the Russian Front | R. Sidney Bowen
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