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Schnapsidee
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Bavarian
Etymology
From bar Schnaps booze Idee idea. Akin to de Schnapsidee.
Pronunciation
bar /ˈʃnɔpsiˌtɛ/ Vienna
bar Schnaps i dee
Noun
f
An impractical idea which seems brilliant when one is drunk; a highdea.
bar Die Sozialisation zur Kontrollüberzeugung unter dem Genderaspekt Roman Riegler 2012 a Masterarbeit which contains an Interviewtranskript 164 dass i mi dann wirklich entschieden hab, den ah des Auslandsjohr zu machen, woa im Prinzip a a Schnapsidee, allerdings koa negativ gmante, https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/open/o:1285524 That I then actually decided to do the year abroad was basically a crazy idea, but not a negative one. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216112019/https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/open/o:1285524 16 December 2021
References
Schnǫ́psidę́
bar Drinking Thinking
German
Etymology
de :af Schnaps Idee
de Schnaps Idee, late 19th century, from the implication that such an idea could only have occurred under the influence of alcohol.
Pronunciation
de /ˈʃnapsʔiˌdeː/
de De-Schnapsidee.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
f
An idea that seems clever or brilliant at first but turns out to be stupid on second thought.
de 1913 Sei ein Mann! 10. Hilflosigkeit Philipp Krämer Röttger Kassel 77 https://www.google.de/books/edition/Sei_ein_Mann/U48bAAAAIAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&bsq=%22schnapsideen%22&dq=%22schnapsideen%22 Ja, manchmal meine ich, die Gesellschaft sei überhaupt nur dazu da, uns zu zeigen, wie allein jeder ist Das ist vielleicht eine von meinen kuriosen Ideen, von denen Richard Z.... immer sagt, es seien Schnapsideen. Yes, sometimes I feel as though society's only purpose is to show us how alone each of us is Maybe that is just one of my strange ideas that Richard Z.... always calls stupid drunk ideas.
de Ralf Sotscheck Neue schottisch-nordirische Verbindung: Viel Rummel um Tunnel Die Tageszeitung: taz 2021-04-07 https://taz.de/!5759016/ 0931-9085 Aber in den beiden Ländern, die verbunden werden sollen, ist man skeptisch. Eine Schnapsidee, findet die nordirische Ministerin für Infrastruktur, Nichola Mallon, von der Sozialdemokratischen Partei. However, there is skepticism in both of the countries which shall be connected. The Northern Irish Minister for Infrastructure, Nichola Mallon from the Social Democratic and Labour Party, considers this a Schnapsidee. https://web.archive.org/web/20261022080803/https://taz.de/Neue-schottisch-nordirische-Verbindung/!5759016/ 22 October 2026
Declension
f
References
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Further reading
de Thinking