Idiom
half a mind
Meaning
A moderate inclination.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I have half a mind to quit this job today.”
“The service was so slow that I had half a mind to walk out of the restaurant without paying.”
“Seeing the blatant disregard for the rules, the supervisor had half a mind to report the entire department for their unprofessional conduct.”
Examples
simple
“I have half a mind to quit this job today.”
contextual
“The service was so slow that I had half a mind to walk out of the restaurant without paying.”
complex
“Seeing the blatant disregard for the rules, the supervisor had half a mind to report the entire department for their unprofessional conduct.”
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