back of one's mind

Idioms  

1. The remote part of one's mind or memory, as in With the idea of quitting in the back of his mind, he turned down the next assignment. [c. 1900]

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Example Sentences

But that unpleasant word "potboiler" hovers in the back of one's mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one’s mind.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Yet even when one was most impatient with the Duke's slowness in uptake, one often admired him most and felt at the back of one's mind that he was most in the right.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

No human being can keep permanently afraid: fear goes at last to the back of one's mind, accepted, and shelved, and done with.

From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There is an irksome sense at the back of one's mind, even when one is thinking of other things—of loss, of something wanting.

From With Rimington by Phillipps, L. March