to one's mind
(Redirected from to my mind)
English
[edit]Pronunciation
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Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) In one's opinion, from one's point of view.
- Synonym: in one's view
- To my mind, if you've talked to Stacy then you've talked to Beth. [implying that there are no secrets between the two]
- To her mind, the only thing worse than public speaking is public dancing.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 1:
- And to my mind, though I am natiue heere / And to the manner borne: It is a Cuſtome / More honour'd in the breach, then the obſeruance.
- 1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In which Lake under the Trees of Brandon, and I in My Chamber, Smoke Our Nocturnal Cigars”, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 63:
- To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.
- 1914, H. H. Munro (Saki), “Dusk”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts:
- Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXV, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.
- 2009 April 17, Gabriel Sherman, “The Wail of the 1%”, in New York Magazine[1]:
- To her mind, extreme compensation is a fair trade for the compromises of such a career.
Usage notes
[edit]- Usually used with the first-person singular possessive adjective my, but also found with other possessives.
Translations
[edit]to one's mind — see in one's opinion
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “to my mind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.