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
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Ideas like that just worm themselves into one's head and one puts them down.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
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)
Impressions seem to go half into one's head and there sink into a woolly bed and die.
From Disease and Its Causes by Councilman, William Thomas
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