have a good mind to

Idioms

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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have a good mind to

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

I have a good mind to lend you some of my men.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

P.S.—I have a good mind to call on that fine-lady schoolmistress of yours, Mrs. Ward.

From The School Queens by L. T. Meade

I shall be at the police court on Monday," the speaker continued after a pause, "and I have a good mind to ask Evans, the sergeant, to step round and have a look at it.

From Under Padlock and Seal by Charles Harold Avery

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