make up one's mind
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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
The flesh of the penguin is black and leathery, with a strong fishy taste, and one must be very hungry to make up one's mind to eat it.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere
You're different from your father . . one must make up one's mind to that.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
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 Gustav Freytag
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
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