Schönwetteridee

German

Etymology

From Schönwetter (“fair weather”) +‎ Idee (“idea”).

Noun

Schönwetteridee f (genitive Schönwetteridee, plural Schönwetterideen)

  1. a pipe dream, a pie-in-the-sky idea; something that seems like a good idea but is infeasible when confronted with difficulties
    • 2023 January 5, Marc Widmann, “Jetzt muss sich das Blatt wenden”, in Die Zeit:
      Das führt zur Frage: War die deutsche Energiewende nur eine Schönwetteridee?
      This leads to the question: Was the German energy transition just pie in the sky?

Declension
Declension of Schönwetteridee [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Schönwetteridee die Schönwetterideen
genitive einer der Schönwetteridee der Schönwetterideen
dative einer der Schönwetteridee den Schönwetterideen
accusative eine die Schönwetteridee die Schönwetterideen
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