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The phrase "crackpot idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a notion or idea that is considered to be completely absurd and unrealistic. For example, "He had the craziest crackpot idea of going to the moon with only a homemade rocket!".
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"A crackpot idea" was Frankfurter Rundschau's verdict.
Where had they got such a crackpot idea?
Over a mere decade, the collapse of civilization has moved from crackpot idea to something reasonable people can contemplate.
IN SEPTEMBER Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority launched a public consultation on what sounds like a crackpot idea: to create children with three genetic parents.
Every once in awhile you hear a crackpot idea and you've got to reel it back, but it doesn't happen very often.
Increasingly, the conservatives' view seems to be that every crackpot idea — if developed by right-thinking crackpots — deserves its day in court, especially the nation's highest court.
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Talk story about crackpot ideas offered to the Administration.
Dean Burnett dispenses most of his crackpot ideas in shorter bursts on Twitter, @garwboy.
They want to impose all sorts of crackpot ideas on our school system.
The New Yorker, April 22, 1939 P. 11 Talk story about crackpot ideas offered to the Administration.
People like him wanted to impose crackpot ideas on schools, he says.
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