Question of the Day #676

Soon they were thieving right and left, with their hare-brained schemes just getting scheme-ier and scheme-ier as time went on. 

From the 13th paragraph of this article at Hypable.

上記の文で、hare-brainedの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "hare-brained" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 〔人・行動などが〕軽率な、向こう見ずな
2. 〔計画などが〕無謀な、とっぴな

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

1. FOOLISH
2. ABSURD, RIDICULOUS

Examples

• the movie follows the harebrained antics of a pair of stoners who seem incapable of growing up
• That sounds like another of his harebrained schemes!
• Yet all their harebrained schemes have turned out to be extremely profitable. Times, Sunday Times (2007)
• One possibility being floated by conservatives is a particularly harebrained scheme to undermine Social Security, in the guise of helping people get through the crisis. — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 11 May 2020
• Despite its weighty emotional toll, the new album wouldn’t be a true Thundercat project without Bruner’s kaleidoscopic musical style and propensity for pairing morbidly serious topics with harebrained humor. — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020

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