never mind

Idioms  

1. Don't worry about something, don't trouble yourself, it doesn't matter. For example, Never mind what I said, it wasn't important , or Never mind, you can always take the driver's test again . This expression employs mind in the sense of “care about something,” a usage dating from the late 1700s.

2. Also, never you mind . Don't concern yourself with that, it's none of your business, as in Never you mind where I plan to buy the new TV . [Early 1800s]

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Example Sentences

In October, he effectively said, never mind.

From The Wall Street Journal

Never mind that Mr. Bush repeatedly made that point himself, including by visiting a mosque in the District of Columbia and calling Islam “a religion of peace” less than a week after 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Never mind. I shouldn’t have said anything.”

From Literature

If you're going, then never mind the flowers in your hair.

From BBC

Their performances are so large and earnest and melodramatic—Mam in a broad Irish brogue, Constance with a pinched malevolence—that two actresses of their stature, never mind talent, would certainly have caught a whiff of the ham in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal