Idiom
come to mind
Meaning
To appear in one's thoughts.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Does any name come to mind?”
“When I try to think of a good gift for him, nothing specific comes to mind.”
“As she stared at the blank page, several interesting ideas began to come to mind, though she struggled to organize them into a coherent story.”
Examples
simple
“Does any name come to mind?”
contextual
“When I try to think of a good gift for him, nothing specific comes to mind.”
complex
“As she stared at the blank page, several interesting ideas began to come to mind, though she struggled to organize them into a coherent story.”
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