float an idea
float an idea
To suggest something in order to gauge interest in it or others' perception of it. Can you float the idea of closing the office early on Fridays in the summer, to see how management reacts?
See also: float, idea
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- flown
- fly a kite
- fly a/your kite
- bounce an idea off (of) (one)
- bounce an idea off someone
- flagpole
- run (something) up the flagpole
- run something up the flagpole
- run up the flagpole
- be flying a kite