"idea" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The idea was dangerous and could easily backfire.
- Worse still, the idea can backfire - particularly if people come to suspect that ulterior motives are at work.
- The whole idea would have backfired if The Smiths audience had rejected James.
- Even if the market is relatively small, some critics say the idea will inevitably backfire, particularly given the new skittishness of subway riders.
- The idea backfired; the Jets did not last the season.
- It is a market the Big Three car makers created a few years ago, but the idea has backfired.
- This idea backfired when Prince, while falling to his death, shot and killed Priest with a crossbow.
- I thought I could confuse the issue, but the idea backfired.
- Detroit created this market in an effort to address the slump in new-car sales a few years ago, but the idea backfired.
- That is why I believe that the idea of "Take from the rich" backfired on the very people who voted it in.
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