Sentence examples for first idea about from inspiring English sources

The kind of people who retreat to their two-room apartments or cluttered garages and emerge, two years later, with a better mousetrap are pathological optimists, and seldom have the first idea about politics.

Schueller's daughter, Liliane Bettencourt, later tried to excuse her father's wartime behavior by saying that he was a "pathological optimist who hadn't the first idea about politics, and who always managed to be in the wrong place".

And he could do so as the child of a country that still does not even have a grasscourt and where, culturally, people have scarcely the first idea about how to look after a lawn.

Old timers - and I suppose, since I can remember the 1980s, I am one of them - are prone to pontificating, with a touch of smugness, about how no one under 35 has the first idea about a recession.

But it's clear that his advisors hadn't the first idea about the kind of signal this dogma-driven decision sends out, ensuring that his claim that this will be the "greenest government ever" is in deepest jeopardy.

They clearly don't have the first idea about cycling, I think, as I grind up the hill out of Tonbridge, the first of three climbs on the stage that earn points for the Tour's 'king of the mountains' trophy.

Show students the map and ask for their first ideas about how hydraulic fracturing might change different aspects of the community.

John Ruskin took up the fight, campaigning against the horrors of rampant industrialisation and its social consequences, his efforts leading to the creation of the National Trust and to the first ideas about good planning, with its aims of "the home healthy, the house beautiful, the town pleasant, the city dignified and the suburbs salubrious".

However, it is interesting to note that the logo was added in a video format (passing first ideas about the system) in 2 proposals.

He's not saying that people need to stubbornly cling to their first ideas about a new product, service, process, or any other new thing.

Trump's second idea about trade is that it represents a kind of contest of pride, even manhood.