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lose one's mind
Idioms and Phrases
Also, lose one's reason . Go crazy, lose one's sanity, as in I thought she'd lost her mind when she said she was going ice-fishing , or That assignment is enough to make me lose my reason . The first expression dates from the late 1500s; the second employs reason in the sense of 鈥渦nimpaired mental faculties,鈥 a usage dating from the late 1300s. Also see under go out of one's mind ; have all one's buttons .Example Sentences
He paraphrased the United Negro College Fund鈥檚 tagline, 鈥淎 mind is a terrible thing to waste,鈥 as 鈥淲hat a waste it is to lose one鈥檚 mind.鈥
Former Vice President Dan Quayle鈥檚 mangling of a United Negro College Fund advertising slogan, 鈥淲hat a waste it is to lose one鈥檚 mind,鈥 has, perhaps mercifully, been dropped.
This morsel from another man who might consider staying out of the sun on golf courses aptly describes our current stubborn and misguided leader: 鈥淲hat a waste it is to lose one鈥檚 mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.鈥
A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he lost himself in a self-indicting verbal fog: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind.
She leaned her head down on her father's shoulder and thought how sad it must be to lose one's 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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