that's the idea

Meaning

1. Editorial69% of films

   Used to confirm that a situation, effect, or course of action just mentioned is exactly the intended plan or point, often when it sounds risky, odd, or undesirable.

   That's the idea.

2. Oxford31% of films

   used to encourage people and to tell them that they are doing sth right

In the movies · 12

• Please don't talk like that. But that's the idea.Double Indemnity1944
• That's the idea. Pops, get it open.Terminator Genisys2015
• - Are you afflicted? - That's the idea. Are you ready?Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991
• That's the idea.The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent2022
• That's the idea.Madame Web2024
• That's the idea.Life in a Year2020
• Yeah, that's the idea.Boyhood2014
• That's the idea.The Mummy1999

Learn it in full scenes

• Double Indemnity1944
  • Walter Meets Phyllis
  • Neff Flirts With Phyllis
  • Keyes Busts Garlopis's Fake Claim

From the same entry

• give ideas
• have no idea
• have the right idea
• that's an idea
• you have no idea
• buck your ideas up