put in mind
To encourage or inspire someone to follow a certain course of action.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“That song puts me in mind of my childhood home.”
“The smell of fresh bread puts me in mind of the bakery my grandmother used to own.”
“The stark, desolate landscape put him in mind of the stories his father once told him about the long journey across the mountains.”
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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.
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blow someone's mind
To astonish someone; to flabbergast someone.
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bored out of one's mind
Extremely bored.
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cast one's mind back
To try to remember a particular time or event; to think about something in the past.
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change one's mind
To decide differently than one had decided before.
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change someone's mind
To convince someone to make a choice or develop a preference differing from their previous one.
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close one's mind
To refuse to understand things.
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come to mind
To appear in one's thoughts.
Last updated August 10, 2026