| blue-sky thinking | |
| —n | |
| creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking or beliefs | |
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| Main Entry: | blue-sky thinking |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | original or creative thinking, unfettered by convention and not grounded in reality |
| Example: | The origin of the management cliché may be obscure, but it suggests the emptiness of the skies - in blue-sky thinking there should be no preconceptions. |