that's the idea
Example Sentences
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But that’s the idea of argument that I like, where you’re actually convincing someone of something, or you are adapting your own ideas to someone else’s.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025
"You use the time, distance and the magnitude of event pairs, and try to find the link between two events -- that's the idea," Chen said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023
They’re on a healing journey, or at least that’s the idea; family friction keeps intruding, much of it rooted in Nate’s specific failures as a husband and father.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2022
OK, not in so many words, but that's the idea.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2022
I am not quite sure that I have got the exact words, but that's the idea.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various
