be of two minds Idiom, Proverb
in two minds about something
undecided My niece is in two minds about whether or not she will come and visit me this summer.
meeting of minds
mutual agreement, consensus We agreed to share the cost of the project. It was a meeting of minds.
of two minds
having two opinions, mixed feelings Speaking of abortion, I'm of two minds: pro choice and pro life.
In two minds
If you are in two minds about something, you can't decide what to do.
Great Minds Think Alike
Intelligent people think like each other.
be in two minds about something
unable to decide: "I'm in two minds about buying a new car."
great minds run in the same channel, all
great minds run in the same channel, all Intelligent persons think alike or come up with similar ideas. For example,
I see you brought your tennis racket—thank goodness for great minds. This term is often uttered (sometimes jokingly) when two persons seem to find the same answer simultaneously, and is frequently shortened. [Late 1500s]
meeting of the minds
meeting of the minds Agreement, concord, as in
The teachers and the headmaster had a meeting of the minds regarding smoking in school. This expression uses
meet in the sense of “arrive at mutual agreement,” as clergyman Edward B. Pusey did in a letter of 1851: “Devout minds, of every school ... meet at least in this.”
of two minds, be
of two minds, be Be undecided, vacillate between two alternatives, as in
She's of two minds about her new job—it's much closer to home but also less challenging. Put as
in two minds, this idiom was first recorded in 1853, but variants such as
diverse minds and
twenty minds date back to the early 1500s.
be of two minds
To acquaintance agnosticism and/or adverse emotions. I am of two minds about whether or not to go to the affair tonight. I'm abiding it will be fun, but I accept a lot of assignment to do too. The board is currently of two minds about a acceptable punishment, but hopefully they can ability a accommodation in the morning.Learn more: mind, of, twoof two minds, be
Be undecided, vacillate amid two alternatives, as in She's of two minds about her new job-it's abundant afterpiece to home but additionally beneath challenging. Put as in two minds, this argot was aboriginal recorded in 1853, but variants such as diverse minds and twenty minds date aback to the aboriginal 1500s. Learn more: of, two be of two minds
To accept alloyed animosity or be ambivalent about something.Learn more: mind, of, twobe of/in two minds, to
To be clumsy to decide, to be in doubt. This about-face of byword goes aback to the aboriginal sixteenth century, although the cardinal two was not fixed. Jehan Palsgrave wrote (1530), “I am of dyverse myndes,” and in the eighteenth aeon several writers came up with as abounding as twenty minds. Dickens acclimated both—“I was in twenty minds at once” (David Copperfield) and “. . . was in two minds about angry or accepting a pardon” (A Child’s History of England).Learn more: of, two