"elaborate idea" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a complex or detailed concept or plan. Example: The scientist presented an elaborate idea for a new method of fuel extraction that could revolutionize the energy industry.
Elaborate ideas have been proposed for formal memorials.
Then come some more elaborate ideas, from a collection called "Slowly, Slowly in the Wind".
"The other kids were people you could discuss your most elaborate ideas with and nobody would be condescending," Minsky said in recalling his experience there.
The technological history of hockey is littered with elaborate ideas that did not pan out, like the Fox network's glowing puck, the heated skate blade and Cooperalls.
Nor does he have elaborate ideas about authoritarianism and the ills of liberal democracy, in the manner of German conservative chancellors such as Brüning or von Papen.
More elaborate ideas, including the number and length of weeks and months, and names thereto, can be deferred for the present, but may become important considerations in coming years.
As tax lawyers, we had all sorts of elaborate ideas for how to get around this.
It's easy to come up with elaborate ideas in our head, but the impressive thing is coming up with a plan to live it out.
I heard him talk healthcare to death but while he was elaborating ideas his opponents were telling stories.
Elaborating ideas initially proposed by Fitts (Fitts & Deininger, 1954; Fitts & Seeger, 1953), Kornblum, Hasbroucq, and Osman (1990) suggested that S R compatibility should be understood in terms of two factors: (1) the dimensional overlap of the stimulus set and the response set, and (2) the specific mapping of the elements in the stimulus set onto the response set.
