brainstorm

brainstorm

1. verb To actively work to come up with ideas for something, often in an unstructured way. Come on in, we're just brainstorming ideas for the next issue.
2. noun A good, useful, or valuable idea, especially one that comes suddenly or unexpectedly. OK, I just had a brainstorm—what if we painted the bathroom blue and the hallway yellow? Wouldn't that look better?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brainstorm

1. n. a good idea; an idea that enters one’s head suddenly. I had a sudden brainstorm and got out of bed to write it down.
2. in. to try to think up good ideas, especially as a group. Let’s brainstorm on this for a little while.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hide one's light under a bushel, to
  • a peg on which to hang (something)
  • a peg on which to hang something
  • a peg to hang (something) on
  • a peg to hang a matter on
  • a peg to hang something on
  • put (something) into practice
  • put into practice
  • put something into practice
  • find common ground
References in periodicals archive
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And Lee-Sean Huang, co-founder and creative director at Foossa, a New York City design and innovation consultancy, says the firm encourages the use of pantomime and role-playing to brainstorm ideas.
When a brainstorm session is conducted, a written report from that session should be prepared and shared with the participants to make sure all content was captured.
Kevin said: "Brainstorm are a bunch of web geeks who love to write code, however we won't baffle you with the science of it (unless you really want us to, but be sure to book a few hours out of your day for us to do so!)."
The London Eye brainstorm will take place on June 18, 2012.
Teachers brainstorm words connected with the topic in class before setting the composition for homework.
PNY Technologies along with NVIDIA Corporation, Brainstorm and NextComputing has demonstrated how broadcast, film and new media production professionals can take advantage of this fully integrated, GPU-based solution for real-time acquisition, processing and delivery of HD video.
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BRAINSTORM SEEMS TO BE ALMOST A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS, since the brain is associated with intelligence and thought, while the word storm conjures up images of total chaos, and yet a brainstorm has come to mean a new and usually very creative idea.
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Written by entrepreneur, consultant, and public speaker Marsha Haigh Arend, From Brainstorm to Bestseller: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Publishing Your First Book is a solidly practical guide to putting together a fiction or nonfiction book, polishing it, and getting one's feet wet in the complex world of publishing.