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mind

Used to highlight or emphasize an exception, qualification, or explanation. Usually used at the beginning or end of a sentence. Primarily heard in UK, Ireland. The new product seems like it's off to a great start. We'll still need to wait for official sales numbers in a few months time, mind. I'm not nearly as fit as I used to be. Mind, I have been stuck at home with the kids for the last two years.
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mind

n. [one’s] head. Quiet or I’ll clout your mind!
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"If you can prove I'm guilty, I'll be willing to die nine times, but a mind's eye is no proof, because the Woggle-Bug has no mind to see with."
But the content of my thought, the particular event that is happening in my mind, is different when I think of Smith and when I think of Brown.
We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy; a very complete form.
To my great surprise, I found it simply impossible to fix my mind on the subject.
They relate to a subject of which Plato himself would have said that 'he was not confident of the precise form of his own statements, but was strong in the belief that something of the kind was true.' It is the spirit, not the letter, in which they agree--the spirit which places the divine above the human, the spiritual above the material, the one above the many, the mind before the body.
There is no doubt in my mind, there can be no doubt in the mind of any one, that he was a dead man before ever we got to the empty cottage, and worked with might and main to tear down the beam.
Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?
That I should ever meet with a mind and person so rich in the mingled graces which could render marriage desirable, was far indeed from my conception.
I called to mind, now my thoughts were directed that way, what had passed between Mr.
You must make it quite clear to your mind which you are most bent upon, old boy-- popularity or usefulness--else you may happen to miss both."
The method used in both these searches after truth and after gold, being indeed one and the same, viz., the searching, rummaging, and examining into a nasty place; indeed, in the former instances, into the nastiest of all places, A BAD MIND.
Arriving at the rose-garden, he stopped and took out his pipe; then suddenly changed his mind, and turned back again by another path.
But one mind still held possession of its resources -- but one guiding spirit now moved helpfully in the house of mourning.
If he appeared to be in his customary state of mind, Mr.
It's a thousand pities you didn't do it before; for it'll give you something to fill your mind. There's nothing like a dairy if folks want a bit o' worrit to make the days pass.