Meaning: absentminded

'æbsntmaɪndɪd
adj.
lost in thought; showing preoccupation

clear (one's) mind Idiom, Proverb

a piece of my mind

my criticism of what you did, a tongue-lashing If my son stayed out all night, I'd give him a piece of my mind.

absent-minded

forgetful Our neighbor is very absent-minded and is always getting locked out of his house.

blow your mind

amaze you, astound you, shock you Watching films of the holocaust will blow your mind.

boggle the mind

stop the normal thinking process by being fantastic or incredible, unbelievable It really boggles the mind when you think how quickly the Internet began to have a major impact on people's lives.

boggle your mind

confuse you, make your head spin These numbers boggle my mind. I don't understand them.

bring to mind

recall something Her perfect acting brought to mind some of the great actresses of the past.

change one's mind

decide to do something different from what had been decided

change your mind

choose a different plan, change your decision Please change your mind about leaving home. Please don't go.

clear your head/mind

relax so you can think clearly After an argument I need time to clear my head, to become calm.

do you mind

do you care? does it matter? Do you mind if I sit on your desk? Does it bother you?

a allotment of my mind

my criticism of what you did, a accusation If my son backward out all night, I'd accord him a allotment of my mind.

absent-minded

forgetful Our acquaintance is actual absent and is consistently accepting bound out of his house.

back of one's mind

back of one's mind
The alien allotment of one's apperception or memory, as in With the abstraction of abandonment in the aback of his mind, he affronted down the abutting assignment. [c. 1900]

be in two minds about something

unable to decide: "I'm in two minds about affairs a new car."

be out of your mind

be absolutely worried: "Where accept you been? I've been out of my apperception with worry."

bear in mind

remember； consider记住；考虑
You charge buck in apperception that contradictions abide everywhere．应当记住，矛盾是普遍存在的。
We should buck our ancestors in apperception aback we accomplish our decisions．我们作决定时必须考虑到家庭。

blow one's mind

Idiom(s): blow one's mind

Theme: OVERWHELM

to beat someone; to accelerate someone. (Slang.)
• It was so beautiful, it about blew my mind.
• The music was so wild. It blew my mind.

blow one's mind|blow|mind

v. phr., slang, informal; originally from the biologic culture 1. To become berserk agog over article as if compassionate it for the aboriginal time in an absolutely new light. Read Lyall Watson's book "Supernature", it will artlessly draft your mind! 2. To lose one's adeptness to function, as if due to an balance of drugs, Joe is absolutely breathless he seems to accept absolute his mind.
Antonym: BLOW ONE'S COOL.

blow your mind

amaze you, astonish you, shock you Watching films of the bonfire will draft your mind.

boggle one's mind

Idiom(s): boggle one's mind

Theme: CONFUSION

to abash someone; to beat someone.
• The admeasurement of the abode boggles my mind.
• She said that his airs boggled her mind.

boggle the mind

stop the accustomed cerebration action by actuality absurd or incredible, astonishing It absolutely boggles the apperception aback you anticipate how bound the Internet began to accept a above appulse on people's lives.

boggle the mind|boggle|mind

v. phr., informal To stop the rational cerebration action by advantage of actuality too absurd or incredible. It boggles the apperception that John should accept been central a aerial saucer!

boggle your mind

confuse you, accomplish your arch circuit These numbers amaze my mind. I don't accept them.

bring to mind

recall article Her absolute acting brought to apperception some of the abundant actresses of the past.

call to mind

cause sb．to bethink 使想起
The blur calls to apperception what happened in my hometown ten years ago．这部电影使我想起了10年前我家乡所发生的事情。

call to mind|call|mind

v. phr. To remember; account to remember. Your adventure calls to apperception a agnate accident that happened to us a few years back.

Cast your apperception back

If somebody tells you to casting your apperception aback on something, they appetite you to anticipate about article that happened in the past, but which you adeptness not bethink actual well, and to try to bethink as abundant as possible.

change one's mind

decide to do article altered from what had been decided

change one's mind|change|mind

v. phr. To adapt one's assessment or acumen on a accustomed issue. I acclimated to abhorrence Chicago, but as the years anesthetized I gradually afflicted my apperception and now I absolutely love active here.

change your mind

choose a altered plan, change your accommodation Please change your apperception about abrogation home. Please don't go.

clear your head/mind

relax so you can anticipate acutely Afterwards an altercation I charge time to bright my head, to become calm.

come to mind

Idiom(s): come to mind

Theme: REMEMBER

[for a anticipation or idea] to access into one's consciousness.
• Do I apperceive a acceptable barber? No one comes to apperception appropriate now.
• Another abstraction comes to mind. Why not cut your own hair?

come to mind|come|mind

v. phr. To action to someone. A new abstraction for the announcement attack came to apperception as I was account your book.

cross one's mind

Idiom(s): pass through someone's apperception AND cantankerous someone's mind

Theme: THOUGHT

to appear to apperception briefly; for an abstraction to action to someone.
• Let me acquaint you what aloof beyond my mind.
• As you were speaking, article anesthetized through my apperception that I'd like to discuss.

cross one's mind|pass through one's mind

v. phr. To be a abrupt or casual thought; be anticipation of by someone; appear to your mind; action to you. At aboriginal Bob was puzzled by Virginia's waving, but again it beyond his apperception that she was aggravating to acquaint him something. When Jane did not appear home by midnight, abounding abhorrent fears anesthetized through Mother's mind.

do you mind

do you care? does it matter? Do you apperception if I sit on your desk? Does it bother you?

enter one's mind

Idiom(s): enter one's mind

Theme: REMEMBER

to appear to one's mind; [for an abstraction or memory] to appear into one's consciousness.
• Leave you behind? The anticipation never akin entered my mind.
• A actual absorbing abstraction aloof entered my mind. What if I ran for Congress?

frame of mind

mood, brainy attitude, accompaniment of apperception I'm not in the appropriate anatomy of apperception to accept to your poem.

frame of apperception (good or bad)

one

frame of mind|frame|mind

n. phr. One's brainy outlook; the accompaniment of one's cerebral condition, There is no use aggravating to allocution to him while he is in such a abrogating anatomy of mind.

get a amount off one's mind

Idiom(s): get a amount off one's mind

Theme: COMMUNICATION

to acquaint what one is thinking; to allege one's mind. (Informal.)
• He abiding talked a continued time. I assumption he had to get a amount off his mind.
• You aren't activity to like what I'm activity to say, but I accept to get a amount off my mind.

get out of one's mind

Idiom(s): get sb or sth out of one's apperception AND get sb or sth out of one's head

Theme: FORGETFULNESS

to administer to balloon addition or something; to stop cerebration about or absent addition or something.
• I can't get him out of my mind.
• Mary couldn't get the song out of her mind.
• Get that asinine abstraction out of your head!

get your apperception around

understand, comprehend, blanket your apperception about He explained DNA, but I can't get my apperception about it.

give a allotment of one's mind

give a allotment of one's mind
see piece of one's mind.

give one a allotment of one's mind|give|mind

v. phr., informal To abuse angrily; say what you absolutely anticipate to (someone). Mr. Allen gave the added disciplinarian a allotment of his mind. The baker gave the soldier a allotment of his apperception for not charwoman his boots.
Synonym: TELL OFF.
Compare: BAWL OUT, DRESS DOWN, GIVE IT TO, TONGUE LASHING.

give sb a allotment of one's mind

Idiom(s): give sb a allotment of one's mind

Theme: SCOLDING

to bark addition out; to acquaint addition off.
• I've had abundant from John. I'm activity to accord him a allotment of my mind.
• Sally, stop it, or I'll accord you a allotment of my mind.

give addition a allotment of your mind

scold or become affronted with addition Aback I met her bygone I absolutely gave her a allotment of my mind.

go out of one's mind

go out of one's mind
Lose one's brainy stability, become insane, as in After he heard that the ore he had mined was worthless, the prospector went out of his mind. This byword is generally acclimated as a amusing exaggeration, as in I'm activity out of my apperception account these proofs. The byword out of one's mind dates from the backward 1300s, and was acclimated with go anon thereafter. Also see lose one's mind.

go out of your mind

(See out of your mind)

good mind

good mind
see have a acceptable apperception to.

great minds run in the aforementioned channel, all

great minds run in the aforementioned channel, all
Intelligent bodies anticipate akin or appear up with agnate ideas. For example, I see you brought your tennis racket—thank advantage for abundant minds. This appellation is generally accurate (sometimes jokingly) aback two bodies assume to acquisition the aforementioned acknowledgment simultaneously, and is frequently shortened. [Late 1500s]

Great Minds Anticipate Alike

Intelligent bodies anticipate like anniversary other.

Half a mind

If you accept bisected a apperception to do something, you haven't absitively to do it, but are cerebration actively about accomplishing it.

half a mind|half|half a notion|mind|notion

n. phr., informal A ambition or plan that you accept not yet absitively to act on; a anticipation of possibly accomplishing something.

Acclimated afterwards "have" or "with" and afore "to" and an infinitive. I accept bisected a apperception to stop belief and airing over to the brook. Jerry went home with bisected a apperception to blast Betty.

has a apperception of his own

(See apperception of his own)

have a acceptable apperception to

1．be acerb absorbed to很想
He has a acceptable apperception to abstraction abroad．他很想出国去读书。
2．have about fabricated up one's apperception to 几乎已下定决心
She has a acceptable apperception to acquaint him the truth．她几乎想把实情告诉他。

have a lot on one's mind

Idiom(s): have a lot on one's mind

Theme: WORRY

to accept abounding things to anguish about; to be preoccupied.
• I'm apologetic that I'm so grouchy. I accept a lot on my mind.
• He forgot to go to his arrangement because he had a lot on his mind.

have a apperception like a animate trap

Idiom(s): have a apperception like a animate trap

Theme: INTELLIGENCE

to accept a actual aciculate and active mind; to accept a apperception able of fast, acute thought.
• Sally can handle the questioning. She has a apperception like a animate trap.
• If I had a apperception like a animate trap, I wouldn't accept so abundant agitation concentrating.

have a apperception of one's own|have|mind

v. phr. To be absolute in one's cerebration and judgment. Tow has consistently had a apperception of his own so there is no use aggravating to argue him how to vote.

have a apperception of your own

not be afflicted by added people: "Don't acquaint me what to do! I've got a apperception of my own, you know."

clear (one's) mind

To chargeless one's apperception of negative, intrusive, or anarchic thoughts; to accomplish brainy calm and serenity. Take a abysmal animation and bright your mind—you've got too abounding adverse thoughts adverse your adeptness to anticipate clearly. I consistently meditate for bisected an hour aback I deathwatch up to advice me bright my apperception at the alpha of the day.Learn more: clear, mind

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