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(verb) to worry about something, to think about something a lot

Example Sentences:

A: What’s wrong, Shawn? Do you have something on your mind?
B: Yeah, Mark. My girlfriend is pregnant and I don’t know what to do!
A: Oh, man.

The teacher asked the nervous student if she had something on her mind.

Note:

We do not use this expression in the ing form.

I have something on my mind.
I am having something on my mind.


have something on your mind

Similar idioms:

  1. beside oneself
  2. speak one’s mind
  3. give someone a piece of your mind
  4. see through someone
  5. get through
  6. sod off
  7. one-track mind
  8. keep an eye on
  9. blow one’s mind
  10. hot under the collar
  11. turn over a new leaf
  12. tell on someone

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