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have a good mind to

Idioms  

  1. 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.

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Patterson: "I have a good mind to ask you both to leave!"

From Time Magazine Archive

I have a good mind to report you to Sister Rita.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Your mother will be at my sanitarium and I have a good mind to give orders that Fox Sanderson is to be told nothing about her.

From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John

‘Oh, ye are going then to the detachment at ---; by my shoul, I have a good mind to be spoiling your journey.’

From Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by Borrow, George Henry

I have a good mind to dig round it and see what is beneath it.

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari

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