make up one's mind

Idioms  

1. Decide between alternatives, come to a decision, as in I had trouble making up my mind about which coat I liked best. This expression dates from the early 1800s, although a similar usage appeared two centuries earlier in Shakespeare's King John (2:1): “I know she is not for this match made up.”

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make up one's mind

You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the more sense one has, the more difficult it is to make up one's mind in an affair of this kind.

From Old-Time Stories by Charles Perrault

When Rendalen was in the humor, he would play by the hour together, just as though no one were in the room; one might make up one's mind to go away at once.

From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

It is impossible to make up one’s mind in the midst of statements so different and yet so positive.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville

One has to sample several glasses of each before one can definitely make up one's mind as to which is the best.

From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

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