Letter I 56750–57000

Inventor's starting point It begins at conception It can be big or harebrained It can be big, bright, good or bad It can be bounced off someone It can be good, bad or brainy It can be good, bad or bright It can be half-baked It can be novel or rough It can come to a head It can come to mind It can come to you It comes before a patent It comes from the head It comes to mind It could be a very good thought It could just come to mind It has a germ It may be a great notion It may be big It may be big or bright It may be bounced off someone It may be bright It may be bright or big It may be bright or novel It may be fixed or bright It may be half-baked It may be just a hunch It may be kicked around It may be preconceived It may be seminal It may be thrown out a meeting It may be thrown out at a meeting It may come from nowhere It may come to mind It may lead to a patent It may pop into your head It might be bad or bright It might be bounced off someone It might be bright It might be crazy It might be half-baked It might be harebrained It might be put in your head It might be radical It might be right or bright It might be rough or half-baked It might begin with a "What if ...?" It might come off the top of your head It might come out of nowhere It might come with an "Aha!" It might just come to you It might make you say "Aha!" It might occur to you It might pop into your head It pops into the head It precedes an invention It starts in your head It starts with a germ It's a thought It's at the end of a block It's best when it's brightest It's better than a mere thought It's formed in one's head It's formed in your head It's in your mind It's just a thought It's just in your head It's often indicated with an index finger pointing straight up It's out of one's mind It's out of your mind It's symbolized by a light bulb Item in a writer's notebook Item sometimes big Its icon is a light bulb idealisation idolum imago "In an ___ world . . ." Impossible to top It can't be improved upon It couldn't be better imaginal Interpret loftily: Br. sp. IDEALISE, tendency to IDEALISING IMPERFECTION (ant.) imaginative treatment Ideologue Impractical dreamer ideologist imaginative quality Imagine as perfect. "If everything goes our way . . ." "If everything works out ..." "In a best-case scenario ..." "In the optimal case ..." If nothing goes wrong If things go well In a perfect way In perfect circumstances In the best case In the best of all possible worlds In the best of all worlds In the best of worlds In the best way In theory Inventors' diaries? inward monitor It's not too light or too heavy Inventive guy Inventor sort Inventive fellows Inventive sorts "I Get ___" "I Get ___" (pop song) "I Get ___," 1951 song "Intelligence ... is really a kind of taste -- taste in ___": Susan Sontag Imagination output Infant songs, perhaps? Innovations' originations Innovations' origins Intellectual results. Invention initiators Invention inspirations Invention preceders Invention seeds Inventions' origins Inventions, initially Inventive thoughts Inventor's stock-in-trade Inventors have them Inventors' fortes Inventors' seeds Inventors' sparks introspect Is part of a think tank ideative IDEA (Fr.) Idea, in French Idea, in Iberville Idea, in Ile Maligne Image mentale Inventeur's inspiration Inventeur's need Inventeur's starting point It comes from a French bean It comes from une tête It may be "fixe" It may come to a tête It popped into Descartes's head It's in Henri's tête in French Notion It won't go away Inventeur's list Inventeur's notes " ", in bibliographies "I don't want to repeat the source" It's the same to a Roman in precisely the same form Impossible to tell apart In exactly the same way It's a special delivery It makes faces It's used when making faces It may be secret It's a secret for some superheroes IDEA (comb. form) Idea: Prefix. Impression: Prefix. Ill-fated date. Important date for Brutus Infamous day in "Julius Caesar" Infamous day in March Infamous time of March It's around the 15th "In March, July, October, May the ___ day" Inauspicious day. "I.e.," in toto "I.e.," spelled out "In other words," in full "i.e.", for long I. e. I.e. Words I.e., i.e. I.e., in full In other Words Have with In other words, for Caesar In other words, in Caesar's words In other words, in Latin In other words, in Ovid's words In other words, in Virgil's words In other words, in another language In other words, in old Rome In other words, in other words In other words, to Brutus In other words, to Caesar In other words, to Nero It is: Lat. Ides, in Italy Ides, in Roma Ides, to Italians Infamous Amin of Uganda Infamous Ugandan Amin Infamous despot Amin Infamous dictator Infamous name of Uganda Infamous palindromic name "It was me!" "__ it my way" "__ it my way" (Sinatra) "___ it my way" (Sinatra lyric) "___ it!" (cry of accomplishment) "_____ it!" (child's cry of accomplishment) "_____ it!" (gleeful cry) ___ it!: cry of triumph "It was somebody else" "It wasn't me!" Innocent response "It was fine with me" "If ___ before ..." "I wander'd till ___": M. Arnold "I wander'd till ___”: Arnold "It was mortifying" "___ in my boots . . . ": Benét "It's clear, bro" "___ it!" ("Love that!") "___ it!" ("Nice!") "___ it!" ("Very cool!") "I'm really into this!" (slang) Individual: Prefix It means "peculiar" Inane behavior It doesn't make sense It makes no sense Invented language, often between twins Individual's unique use of language Individual speech patterns "Il pleut des cordes," e.g. ("it's raining ropes," in French) "In a pickle," e.g. "In la-la land," e.g. "In my bag," e.g. "In seventh heaven" or "on cloud nine" "In seventh heaven," e.g. "In the doghouse," e.g. "In the doghouse," for one "In the raw," "in the red" or "in the running" "In the red," e.g. "It's raining cats and dogs," for one 'In the red,' for one
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