make up one's mind

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Todecide; to reach aconclusion.I can'tmake up my mindwhether to have ice cream or cake.1909,Archibald Marshall[pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, inThe Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company, published1919,→OCLC:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I alwaysmade up my mindI'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."2025February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, inRAIL, number1029, page41:By that time,Labourhadmade up its mind.

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