- Lose your mind: To become mentally ill, or to start behaving in a silly or strange way.
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- You just spent all that money on a pair of shoes? Have you completely lost your mind?
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- Know your own mind: To be certain about what you believe or want and are not easily influenced by other people.
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- She certainly knows her own mind when it comes to giving stage directions.
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- My mind went blank: Not to be able to remember a particular thing.
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- I tried to remember her name, but my mind went completely blank.
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- Change my mind: To form a new opinion or make a new decision about something that is different from your old one.
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- If you change your mind about coming tonight, just give me a call.
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- Make up my mind: To decide.
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- I haven’t made up my mind where to go yet.
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- Be in two minds: To be unable to decide about something.
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- I’m in two minds about where to go.
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- Bear in mind: Remember, take into account.
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- Bear in mind that you’ve been ill, and take it easy for a while.
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- Bring sth/smo to mind: To cause one to think of or remember someone or something.
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- That song brings to mind many fond memories of my childhood.
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- Call sth to mind: Remember, recall.
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- I know we met last year, but I can’t call the occasion to mind.
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- Come to mind: Be recalled.
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- He tried to solve the problem by brainstorming, jotting down the first thing that came to mind.
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- Cross my mind: To suddenly think of sth, to suddenly occur to smo.
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- It never crossed my mind that they would turn the proposal down.
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- Get smo/sth out of your mind: To manage to forget someone or something; to stop thinking about someone or something.
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- I couldn’t get the song out of my mind.
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