change one's mind

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Todecidedifferently than one had decided before.She started up the stairs,changed her mind, and turned to go back down.2006Baggs, Amanda,Changes in Self-Awareness Over Time, Disclaimer on Assumptions, [http://] ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=294 May 2006:So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to havechanged my mind, sometimes my mind is all that’s changed.2024January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, inRAIL, number1000, page61:Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers"[…]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed tochange our minds.

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