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Idioms and Phrases

Be strongly inclined to, as in She had a good mind to tell him everything . A slightly weaker form of this idiom is have a mind to , as in I have a mind to spend my next vacation in the desert . Formerly this idiom was sometimes put as have a great mind to . [c. 1400] Also see half a mind .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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