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You and your bright ideas
Meaning
- A dry, weary way to point out that someone's plan or suggestion has gone horribly wrong. It is almost always used with a sense of exasperated affection.
Exasperated, wry
Used in a sentence
- We are lost in the woods because of you and your bright ideas.
- You and your bright ideas about fixing the plumbing have left us with a flooded kitchen.
- My wife looked at the broken toaster and just sighed, you and your bright ideas.
The backstory
This is a classic bit of ironic dad-speak. It turns a phrase that should be a compliment into a critique of poor judgment.
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