The phrase "explode the idea" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in a figurative sense to mean to fully understand or expand upon an idea. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: "After hours of brainstorming, we were finally able to explode the idea and come up with a comprehensive plan for our project."
If "4'33″ " is supposed to explode the idea of a fixed repertory of formally constrained works, it has failed, by virtue of having become a modernist classic.
If "4'33" " is supposed to explode the idea of a fixed repertory of formally constrained works, it has failed, by virtue of having become a modernist classic.
They try to really explode the idea of a choir as something that just sort of stands still wearing black bow ties, holding black folders and singing pretty, although they do sing very, very beautifully.
The Siegfried Idyll, Isolde's Liebestod, the celebrated chorus from Act 3 of Tannhäuser: these are all works whose beauty and emotional heft hit you with such immediacy they explode the idea that Wagner's music is difficult or requires special education to understand.
Stein is right -- the Oregon results, if they go Obama's way, may explode the idea that Obama cannot win white working-class voters.
But Harris leaves out all the other key findings of the study which explode the idea that supporters of Islamist parties are essentially hostile to human rights.
Ambar explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945, instead placing its origins squarely in the Progressive Era.
At the same time, the new scholars have exploded the idea that the Schlieffen plan was actually useful, let alone a well-oiled doomsday machine.
And he explodes the idea that economic liberals must regard extreme inequalities as somehow justified, a sad necessity sanctified by the market.
"One of the joys of this project has been exploding the idea of some great canon of American literature," said David Kipen, a former newspaper book critic and essayist who manages the N.E.A. program.
"It certainly explodes the idea that we need to do research for a long time before getting started," said Pacala, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and co-director with Socolow of Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (see related story below).
