The phrase "alarming idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a concept or thought that causes concern or fear.
Example: "The proposal to cut funding for mental health services was met with an alarming idea that it would lead to increased rates of homelessness."
Alternatives: "disturbing notion" or "worrisome thought".
The contemplation of nudity or sex could tend to bring up the alarming idea that at any moment human passions might rise up and topple the world we know.
Mr. Aliyev also expressed interest in someday shipping oil through Iran, an alarming idea for United States officials backing a route that sticks to nations friendly to the West.
As writer came to the end of the volume, an alarming idea occurred to him: What if the Nobel Prizes in the sciences turn out to be no more infallable than those in literature?
He called Labour's manifesto pledge to break up RBS into regional units a "genuinely alarming idea" that would be both expensive and difficult to achieve, while suggesting it may never happen because the current Conservative government has plans to keep selling the taxpayers' stake.
"It was an alarming idea and one that could easily have been dismissed as the crazy product of someone's fevered imagination, of someone who thought too much about terrorism". In the end, however, the threat was addressed in the group's final report.
Many have alarming ideas and repellent social attitudes.
What's more distressing is that Ms. Sarsour is not the only leader of the women's movement who harbors such alarming ideas.
A classic King novella takes time to tease out the implications of its alarming central idea, but the ending still comes swiftly enough to make the final page resound like a slammed door.
Which is more alarming: the idea that Pizzagate is being promoted by politically motivated cynics who don't actually believe it, or that people with influence and proximity to power, including people with access to the President-elect, are really susceptible to this sort of nonsense?
And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea that what Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?
And yet what's far more alarming than the idea of Hollywood filmmakers and moguls trying to figure out how to inspire their audiences to cathartic orgies of sniffling and sobbing is the notion of psychologists, educators and the business community conspiring to raise and train the ideal consumer for this second-rate, second-string culture.
