hit on an idea

Then, a few days later, he hit on an idea.

"Then one night, I hit on an idea and began playing with it," the actor said.

It was when home brewers started showing up that the owners hit on an idea.

It wasn't long before he hit on an idea.

Tom grunted and then suddenly hit on an idea.

The growers appeared to be facing ruin until one bright spark hit on an idea.

But then he hit on an idea that might get attention and address a rather persistent lack of disposable income: ask strangers for money.

Sunny hit on an idea: the bar would become a nonprofit club, open on Friday's only.

In going over and then rejecting various tried and true plots, the collaborators hit on an idea for an actual murder.

Finally Frank hit on an idea.

If you are on a site-recce and you hit on an idea or a way of solving your problem, do a dry run.

'One of them's a genius, apparently, and has hit on an idea that's too wonderful for words.'

Out of money, Sid hits on an idea to fix a "waiter's race" by use of a ringer.

During summer vacation 1950 "Hobie" hit on an idea to bring together his two loves, woodshop and water.

None of them can think of an acceptable story, but when the Sultan returns, Hassan hits on an idea.

Still, the Mostly Mozart Festival has hit on an idea of undeniable popularity: attendance this year was conspicuously good.

However, Charlie hits on an idea: he will not tell them until after the next game, figuring their lifted spirits will drive them to a great win.

Complaining that county jails cost $10 million a year to run, the Albuquerque City Council hit on an idea last summer to cut costs: make prisoners pay for their stays.

He hit on an idea with legs: making a coffeetable book about coffee tables (itself a good idea) and equipping the book with legs of its own.

Eventually they hit on an idea: a joint Iranian-American project to publish museum-quality facsimiles that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each to make and a shorter art-book version.

A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did.

Late last week, he hit on an idea: Through intermediaries like Algeria, he asked Iran to warn the Hezbollah that the U.S. would strike at its strongholds in southern Lebanon if they killed more hostages.

Nevertheless, long before midday he had hit on an idea, and during the heat of the afternoon, while all but one of his guards was sleeping, he made a preliminary investigation which satisfied him that the first stage of his plan was practical.

Tait and his advertising agents hit on an idea for generic advertising, of filling the skies above New York with a message done by 'skytyping'- a development of skywriting in which five light aircraft, working on computer synchronicity, puff dots into the sky to form letters sixty feet high.

THE 50th anniversary of India's independence in August 1947 was still a couple of years away when the American Ambassador to India, Frank G. Wisner, hit on an idea he took to P. V. Narasimha Rao, who was then the country's Prime Minister.