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mind you

idiom
Meaning

Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying


Examples
SIMPLE

He is very smart, mind you, but he is also quite lazy.

CONTEXTUAL

The hotel was beautiful and very clean, mind you, the location was a bit far from the city center.

COMPLEX

The project was completed ahead of schedule, mind you, the quality of the final report suffered significantly due to the rushed timeline.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    bear in mind

    To hold (something) in the memory; to remember; also, to be mindful of or pay attention to (something); to consider; to note.

  2. 02

    blow someone's mind

    To astonish someone; to flabbergast someone.

  3. 03

    bored out of one's mind

    Extremely bored.

  4. 04

    cast one's mind back

    To try to remember a particular time or event; to think about something in the past.

  5. 05

    change one's mind

    To decide differently than one had decided before.

  6. 06

    change someone's mind

    To convince someone to make a choice or develop a preference differing from their previous one.

  7. 07

    close one's mind

    To refuse to understand things.

  8. 08

    come to mind

    To appear in one's thoughts.

Last updated April 17, 2026