释义 |
Idiom have a good mindhave a good mind (to do something) informal if you say you have a good mind to do something, especially to punish someone, you mean that you would like to do it, and might do it, although you probably will not.I have a good mind to report you to the headmaster for playing truant.
have a good mindTo strongly feel the urge to do something. I have a good mind to tell those kids to get off my lawn! have a good mind toBe strongly inclined to, as in She had a good mind to tell him everything. A slightly weaker form of this idiom is have a mind to, as in I have a mind to spend my next vacation in the desert. Formerly this idiom was sometimes put as have a great mind to. [c. 1400] Also see half a mind. |