Schnapsidee, German Word, Booze Idea, Germany Shot Glass

With all the beer produced in Germany, there is of course a word for an idea that sounds like it must have originated from a drunken state - "Schnapsidee." A Schnapsidee literally means a "booze idea" and is a term commonly used to indicate that an idea sounds crazy, useless, or completely foolish. However, most of the time Germans use the word even when they know there was no alcohol involved in someone's outlandish idea.