Idiom
close one's mind
Meaning
To refuse to understand things.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Do not close your mind to new ideas.”
“He tends to close his mind whenever someone suggests a different way to solve the problem.”
“By refusing to listen to opposing arguments, she began to close her mind to the possibility that her initial assumptions were fundamentally flawed.”
Examples
simple
“Do not close your mind to new ideas.”
contextual
“He tends to close his mind whenever someone suggests a different way to solve the problem.”
complex
“By refusing to listen to opposing arguments, she began to close her mind to the possibility that her initial assumptions were fundamentally flawed.”
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