He often plays along with their hare-brained schemes, even encouraging them, often just to see them fail.
A diplomat later called the hunt a hare-brained scheme.
They come up with various schemes, each more harebrained than the laststealing library books, breaking and entering, dognappingall with a spectacular lack of success.
He ultimately came to the conclusion that no amount of ripening time was going to help this gimmicky and ultimately harebrained movie.
Frye, who works as a lawyer, is often dishonest and frequently gets into trouble with his many harebrained schemes.
I do not know what evil genius thinks up these harebrained schemes.
No doubt a substantial part of that is accounted for by the nationalisation of steel and one or two other harebrained schemes.
The scheme was to run a road through the centre of the town and to build a bridge across the main street—a most harebrained scheme.
