The phrase "a shocking idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an idea that is surprising or unexpected, often in a negative or controversial context.
Example: "The proposal to cut funding for education was met with outrage; many considered it a shocking idea that could harm future generations."
Alternatives: "an outrageous notion" or "a startling concept."
AMY DAVIDSON: It is a shocking idea.
Here's a shocking idea: hire Larry Gagosian as a consultant.
Many students say staying home is not a shocking idea among their friends.
"When you pay money that's clearly traceable to a sitting secretary of the cabinet," Mr. Parker said, "it's not a shocking idea that you're going to be investigated".
Why are we always trying to change and adjust the game?" Of course, the three-pointer, like the miniskirt, was once a shocking idea, too.
It might be that she was also impelled by a desire to launch a literary career through a shocking idea: that a vulnerable, emotionally needy girl could feel love (though not sexual desire) for a man who sexually exploited her for a decade from the age of seven.
When confronted with the reality of his own deteriorating marriage, however, theory fails to rescue him .Acide Sulfurique", by Amélie Nothomb, a fashionable young writer, is another short though rather disappointing story that relies on a single, shocking idea: a reality television show called "Concentration", in which the contestants are captured, and the penalty for eviction is the death camp.
It is a truly shocking idea.
We have a new, perhaps shocking, idea.
Although the play was based on the shocking idea of a man who seeks instant notoriety by murdering a child, the multiple perspectives offered on each scene made, as I recall, for a somewhat lengthy evening.
Marry Him is a book by Lori Gottlieb that espouses the "shocking" idea that women should stop looking for Mr. Right and "settle" for Mr. He'll Do.
