Throwing cold water also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposals.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The final Earth Day themed event took place Sunday. The Environmental Protection Agency, students and other organizations with ideas for a more sustainable future filled large white tents on the mall.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

He apparently did not feel at ease playing with a big band, even one that followed his own musical ideas.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

But officials are fishing for ideas about what to do with all those fish, which could get pretty smelly.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

And among the conversations I had with my Chinese colleagues was the very close relationship between Dewey's ideas and those of Confucius.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

With its publication, Darwin gained important supporters like Thomas Huxley who were willing to defend his ideas.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But Americans were not the only ones who identified with the ideas in the play.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The report offers some ideas for dealing with obesity within government health care reforms.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

A person with strange ideas might be described as out in left field.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

She writes down her ideas with a pencil in a music notebook.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

I also worked with a group of lay Buddhists who like Dewey's work very much because it is very comfortable with some of the ideas of Mahayana Buddhism."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

This time, members of Congress met with Tyler to get his ideas.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Voters had rejected candidates with extremist ideas and elected moderates instead.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Also,artists and fans can communicate with each other and exchange ideas.

VOA: special.2009.04.08