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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Example Sentences

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

Would it be well, and could one make up one's mind to confine, or drive them all away at once?

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

One has only to make up one's mind to it, and then—do it.

From Last Words by Crane, Stephen

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?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

My advice was simply to make up one's mind what to read, and then read it.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

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