back of one's mind

English

One's remote memory.
- 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 44:
  So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
The supposed location of low-importance plans within the brain.
Wallpapering the bedroom has been at the back of my mind for some time now.
- 2008, Major General John Frost, A Drop Too Many‎^[1]:
  In the backs of all our minds was the proud hope that somehow or other we should get there.