Idiom
what was someone thinking
Meaning
Used to express disappointment about someone's uncharacteristic or abnormal past actions.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“What was he thinking when he bought that ugly car?”
“When I saw the terrible mess they made of the kitchen, I really wondered what they were thinking.”
“Looking back at the disastrous investment that cost them their savings, the partners often asked themselves what they were thinking at the time.”
Examples
simple
“What was he thinking when he bought that ugly car?”
contextual
“When I saw the terrible mess they made of the kitchen, I really wondered what they were thinking.”
complex
“Looking back at the disastrous investment that cost them their savings, the partners often asked themselves what they were thinking at the time.”
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