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in one's right mind
Idioms and Phrases
In a healthy mental state; sane and rational. For example, No one in his right mind would ski down this icy slope . This expression is often used in a negative construction, as in the example. The positive sense appears in the New Testament (Mark 5:15), where a deranged man whom Jesus helped is now 鈥渟itting, and clothed, and in his right mind.鈥 The antonym out of one's mind , as in You must be out of your mind to swim in that icy stream , is from the same period. [c. 1600] Also see go out of one's mind .Example Sentences
Compos mentis, kom鈥瞤os ment鈥瞚s, adj. phrase, in one's right mind鈥攕ometimes merely Compos.
For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.
Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound, sound-minded; lucid. self-possessed; sober, sober-minded. in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's faculties.
The question remains, 鈥 what IS logic? 鈥 and what IS being in one's right mind?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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