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Meaning of back of one's mind | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

One's remote memory.
The supposed location of low-importance plans within the brain.

Equivalents

Deutsch Hinterkopf

Polski w tyle głowy

Examples

“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.”

“Wallpapering the bedroom has been at the back of my mind for some time now.”

“In the backs of all our minds was the proud hope that somehow or other we should get there.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

back of the book Back of the Wight back off back office back out back page