"As a professional, I take umbrage at some of the books with hare-brained schemes," he said.

A diplomat later called the hunt "a hare-brained scheme."

He often plays along with their hare-brained schemes, often just to see them fail.

If you can believe it, he had some hare-brained scheme for preserving India from destruction.

Surely they hadn't followed one of their hare-brained schemes all the way through for once?

"It's the most hare-brained scheme I have ever heard of."

Some are simply hare-brained schemes thought up by well meaning people with little experience.

What kind of hare-brained scheme have you come up with??

For the first time he allowed himself to consider the consequences if this hare-brained scheme fell to pieces.

His approach has always been about fundamentals, and not coming up with hare-brained schemes.