Her mind isn't so much a butterfly as water: you drop an idea in and her thoughts eddy out, hit a wall, lap back, muddle up.
Last year Michael Grade, the ITV chairman, dropped an idea into a speech he gave at a breakfast for politicians and senior industry folk.
In the meeting today, Judge Jackson also dropped an idea he had offered on Tuesday -- that both sides give him the final offers they made in the settlement talks as a way to start remedy discussions.
After May became prime minister, the government appeared to drop any idea of holding an Orgreave inquiry before Rudd reversed that stance following an urgent question from Andy Burnham, then shadow home secretary.
As for Ms. Midler, the idea of dropping a line did not faze her, she said, because she had drilled hard on the script.
It was perhaps fortunate that Gower - who had attended the team's fancy-dress party as Biggles - and Morris abandoned their original idea of dropping a water bomb on the ground.
Online pundit Matt Yglesias writes, "Unlike some, I'm not per se outraged by the idea of dropping a family planning provision from the stimulus bill in response to conservative objections.
Dig a little deeper, though, and it seems that some people are at least entertaining the idea of dropping a couple grand on the Princess Diana bear.
Most of the people who were playing Midnight Juggernauts remixes in 2008 would balk at the idea of dropping a seven-minute house edit back then, but now they're all budding Terrence Parkers.
Sorry, but we are not going to drop a billion dollar idea in the next sentence.
