hare-brained scheme
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used to describe a plan or project that is foolish and unlikely to succeed
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- His latest hare-brained scheme to make money involved selling ice to polar bears.
- She's come up with a hare-brained scheme for getting her novel published.
- The investors quickly rejected the entrepreneur's hare-brained scheme to build underwater hotels.
- His latest business proposal sounded like a completely hare-brained scheme.
- My brother came up with another hare-brained scheme to get rich without working.
- They tried to implement a hare-brained scheme to save money, but it failed spectacularly.
- The company went bankrupt after pursuing a hare-brained scheme that no one believed would work.
- Nobody took seriously his hare-brained scheme to build a city on the moon.
- She wasted thousands of dollars on a hare-brained scheme to breed purple chickens.
- It was a hare-brained scheme from the start, destined to fail.
- The board of directors dismissed his hare-brained scheme as completely unrealistic.
- Are you really going through with that hare-brained scheme?
- They lost everything when their hare-brained scheme collapsed within weeks.
- The manager quickly dismissed their hare-brained scheme as impractical.
- No sensible person would invest in such a hare-brained scheme.
- He's notorious for his hare-brained schemes that rarely pan out.
- The politician's hare-brained scheme to solve traffic problems was widely ridiculed.
- Despite its hare-brained nature, the scheme surprisingly worked.
- I tried to warn him that his hare-brained scheme was doomed to fail from the start.
- We need a solid plan, not another hare-brained scheme.