put one in mind of

1. Remind one, as in You put me in mind of your grandmother. This idiom was first recorded in 1530. For a synonym see call to mind.

Example Sentences

Later presidents' homes certainly put FDR's Hyde Park in the shade and put one in mind of Saddam Hussein and his palaces.

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Shakespeare’s airiest souffle does put one in mind of all those half-hours of zaniness that once dominated prime time: clueless hicks living in Beverly Hills and horses that talk and mischievous uncles from Mars.

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The piles of clothes and the graffiti mountain, meant to signifying a snowboarding landmark, also put one in mind of a landfill and the massive amount of clothing that ends up in them every years.

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And so both of these bizarre events put one in mind of a simple but arresting thesis: that we are living in the Matrix, and something has gone wrong with the controllers.

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It was a heart-on-the-sleeve, big-feeling, big-textured kind of evening, starting with a reading of the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin” that sounded unusually galumphing, even for the NSO, and put one in mind of amiable rhinoceroses good-naturedly attempting a few dance steps. 

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