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@FumbleFingers: The only thing I see "wrong" with "slipped out of my mind" is that I read it first as [slipped] [out of my mind], with "out of my mind" meaning "crazy/hysterical" and then have to correct myself, making it seem unnatural and making it much more distracting than the easier to read "it slipped my mind" –
Jun 9, 2020 · Add a comment. 1 Answer. Sorted by: 1. Neither of the sources you quote are reliable - one is an ELL post, presumably from an English language learner, the other a comment on an article from a reader. "Come to mind" is an idiomatic expression to describe the recall of thoughts, for example: When I think of great composers, Beethoven comes to mind.
Jul 21, 2020 · They are very bad language guides. To use 'out of' and 'mind' to say that someone is insane or 'crazy', you need a possessive pronoun such as my, your, his, her, etc. I am out of my mind, she is out of her mind, etc. 'Out of mind' is an old fashioned phrase meaning 'forgotten, overlooked, insignificant, not readily remembered'.
Otherwise, we say something is "in my mind" to denote that we have remembered something but it is not at the forefront of our thoughts. That said, "the mind" is an abstract thing and can mean different things in different contexts and can be described in different ways. Of your examples, the first sounds correct: There's a lot going on in my mind.
Oct 18, 2015 · 11 2. "You are out of your mind" = "You are insane". "You are out of my mind" is not a stable idiom. I think it's easier to say, "I am not thinking of you at all". – Victor Bazarov. Oct 17, 2015 at 23:35. Add a comment.
They mean the same thing, and is a generic statement meaning approximately "it occurs to me." That being said, neither form is commonly used; the typical way to express this in this form is "It comes to mind...", leaving off any possessive. "It comes to one's mind that there are many ways to skin a cat." "It comes to my mind that there are a ...
Oct 26, 2013 · 1 Answer. Sorted by: 2. All three are fine in everyday use. "Do you mind me opening the window" is technically questionable (because pedants will say that it's really asking if they would prefer somebody else to do it), but it is the sort of "mistake" that will make you sound even more like a native speaker, because it's so common. Share.
Dec 23, 2020 · 10. The argument about the correctness of 'me' and 'my' has been going on for a long time. Jespersen and Fowler discussed this quite heatedly in the tracts of the Society for Pure English in the 1920s. You will find writers of style guides who insist that only the possessive (my) is correct, but the use of the direct object pronoun (me) is ...
3. Probably the most natural is: ...memories of you came to mind. Neither “up” nor “my” are needed. I wouldn’t use came up with my mind. This would be fine, though: We were reminiscing about old days and a story about you came up. If I wanted to use “my mind”, I’d use into, not “to”: I was thinking about old days and ...
“Would you mind taking a minute to answer my messages please?” To correct the first one, it could rather be written as, “Would you please mind taking a minute to answer my messages?” (The position of please is not the thing causing the problem here) Also, Would you mind is already being used as a "polite" phrase, so "please" can be omitted.
