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
"I made up my mind—one takes ideas into one's head, you know—I made up my mind that you were a soldier; one can mostly tell."
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
When one is thoroughly weary all sorts of nonsense come into one's head.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
V. suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise†, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis†, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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