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".
My first idea about Alderwood was that he would never stay the National's four and a half miles, having been a two-mile winner in handicaps at the Festival in 2012 and 2013.
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.
A Mirror editor's first idea about such a story is to take the principals to a restaurant or night club (on the cuff), where they can be photographed at a table.
That speaks to a larger concern – which is the way literature in the UK is constantly made safe and understandable, diluted and commoditised, by those who don't have the first idea about form or voice or point of view or emotional landscape or any of those things real writers concern themselves with before they even sit down and think about inventing a story.
It was dubbed from Swedish into German and, while I'm sure I would have picked up on the finer points had there been subtitles, I came away with a clear vision of the director's world: a place populated by sleepwalkers and lovable fools who really don't have the first idea about anything.
Yet another white person appropriating Eastern "mythology" who doesn't have the first idea about it.
Kenny's original column, which criticised both Leyonhjelm and One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, argued that "neither of these self-promoting misanthropes would have the first idea about entrenched discrimination.
