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
By freedom of speech he meant the right to say instantly whatever came into one's head, particularly if it appeared to belittle one's own country.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
It goes on for weeks with the effect of being quite sane and intended and the right thing, and then, then suddenly it comes whacking into one's head, 'But this—this is utterly mad!'
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It is queer how ideas pop into one's head.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
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