Sentence examples for dodgy idea from inspiring English sources

It's a show that embraces all too eagerly the dodgy idea that "sometimes the best way to evaluate reality is to get as far away from it as possible".

You could bang on about the bizarre pricing structure, and the vertiginous nature of those prices; about the rough-hewn communal tables that are so wide you can't sit opposite your dining companion because you wouldn't be able to hear each other, and the long benches which make wearing a skirt a dodgy idea unless you're desperate to flash the rest of the heavily male clientele.

On the subject of being too obscure, he said in a 1996 interview that "maybe the area where we're on dodgy ground, is this idea that you need great knowledge [of] esoteric music to understand what we're doing".

Both parties have thuggish streaks, dodgy connections and peculiar ideas about politics and economics (until recently, Self-Defence wanted to cure unemployment by splurging the central bank's foreign-currency reserves).

In theory, giving workers more legal protection from dodgy employers is a good idea.

He dropped his glass and said, "Oh, what a good idea," then promptly issued a dodgy contract that was another feature of the good old days of independent publishing.

Trapped certainly shares DNA with its Scandi cousins; Denmark is only a ferry-ride away, to bring with it ideas as well as a dodgy captain.

Between around eight seconds to two hours later (I honestly have no idea; my concept of time was dodgy at best), I came to the realisation that what I'd just ingested was ketamine, not cocaine.

In a country plagued by dodgy deals, few are going to argue with the idea of making corruption a more serious offence.

William Feaver, Freud's friend and biographer, acknowledges that the painter had "lots of dodgy friends" at the time, but pours scorn on the idea that he might have orchestrated Litvinoff's beating and torture.

The idea of freeloading on strangers' networks strikes one as dodgy (or too good to be true), but the reality is more nuanced.