🗓️ Idiom: Brainstorm Ideas (v)
💬 Meaning
- To think of many ideas quickly, often in a group.
- It means to generate different solutions or suggestions before making a decision.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Let’s brainstorm ideas for the new client presentation.
- The team spent the morning brainstorming ideas to reduce costs.
- Before choosing a strategy, we should brainstorm a few more ideas.
🏛️ Origin
The term became popular in the 1940s as a method for group creativity. The word “storm” suggests a burst of energy or activity. In this case, a storm of ideas.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Before we decide on the next steps, let’s __________ and see what we come up with.
Answer
brainstorm ideas
2. Choose the correct meaning of “brainstorm ideas”:
A) To delay a project
B) To focus on one fixed idea
C) To quickly come up with many possible ideas
D) To write a long report
Answer
C) To quickly come up with many possible ideas
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They discussed many creative solutions together.” → Change the sentence using: brainstorm ideas
Answer
They brainstormed ideas together.
