Everyone I talked to at the time considered it an outlandish scheme born of desperation and panic, with no actual chance of success.

What outlandish scheme would involve the blackmailing of an alcohol-addicted sprite?

Some outlandish schemes did reach at least the experimental stage, such as catching a landing aircraft in a glorified tennis net, strung between two posts.

Churchy is usually an active partner in Howland's outlandish schemes, and prone to (sometimes physical) confrontation with him when they (inevitably) run afoul.

He was always playing around with outlandish schemes in his mind.

Madeleine tried to focus on what Nemoto was saying, the details of her outlandish scheme.

Xiong could not even be sure he understood how the engineers were proceeding with their admittedly outlandish scheme.

Their wildly outlandish schemes usually and inevitably ended up failing.

She rapidly falls in love with her new colleague, an ex-convict, and ends up colluding with him in an outlandish scheme.