back of one's mind

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back of one's mind

  1. One's remote memory.
    • 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 44:
      So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
  2. The supposed location of low-importance plans within the brain.
    Wallpapering the bedroom has been at the back of my mind for some time now.
    • 2008, Major General John Frost, A Drop Too Many:
      In the backs of all our minds was the proud hope that somehow or other we should get there.

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