It's a totally screwy idea, but it gave a great 3-D quality to pants and dresses, their hems rounded as if to receive a seat cushion.

"And you helped him with that screwy idea!"

My previous female companion had considered margaritas a corny tourist tipple, but then she'd had a lot of screwy ideas.

Bill said it was a screwy idea.

"He's been on the phone with some screwy idea or other about fifteen times today."

"What sort of screwy ideas you got in that noodle of yours, Sarge?"

"Where'd you get such screwy ideas?"

Glomming the pearls was just one of those screwy ideas a guy can get when he is dizzy with a dame.

George was desperate, he knew, even to contemplate such a screwy idea.

The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.