cockamamie

cockamamie

Absurd or ridiculous. Please don't get involved in another one of his cockamamie schemes—you know they never pan out.

cockamamie story

A story that is absurd or ridiculous. Please don't get involved if he tells you another cockamamie story of how you'll get rich quick working on his latest invention—you know they never pan out. When I asked Tommy why he didn't have his book report to hand in, he gave me some cockamamie story about it flying into the fireplace last night.
See also: cockamamie, story
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cockamamie

(ˈkɑkəmemi)
mod. ridiculous; inconceivable. That is the most cockamamie thing I ever heard of.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • cockamamie story
  • from the ridiculous to the sublime
  • ridiculous
  • ridiculous to the sublime, from the
  • sublime
  • there is (a) method in (one's) madness
  • there is (a) method to (one's) madness
  • there is method in someone's madness
  • have (a) method in (one's) madness
  • have (a) method to (one's) madness
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"Cockamamie" is in the eye of the beholder, of course.
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I produce it, or come up with the cockamamie idea to make a space movie.
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"The New Hampshire Constitution plainly bars this cockamamie scheme."
Be your proud self and stop schlepping all that cockamamie ancestral baggage around.
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My father was one of the most ingenious men I have ever met; when you looked at him, you could see the wheels turning in his brain, spinning to soup up a crazy and cockamamie business deal that only he could pull off, or some new and creative way to keep the ever present Israeli forces at bay.
In politics these days, every cockamamie idea is given a respectful hearing in the press.
They are vulnerable to witch-doctor technicians who announce the need for new trillions in spending or some new cockamamie scheme for regulation.