into one's head
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Michael Frayn: Ideas for things come into one's head, or bits of ideas; you feel there's something – there's some meat on the bone, there's something there that lures you on.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2011
Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nay," said Miss Fanshaw, "I hope you aren't affronted now at what I said; when we are by ourselves, you know, one says just what comes into one's head.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Edgeworth, Maria
The only thing to do was not to solve it: to stray on, and answer fate with whatever came into one's head.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
What put this child's fancy into one's head, that there is anything outside of one which produces them?
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Kingsley, Charles
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