change one's mind
verb1
Idiomatic To decide differently than one had decided before.
- What about the love we made so sweet? / Arе you sure you wanna go? (Are you sure?) / Think about it, baby, bеcause I know / I know that you wanna, you wanna change your mind1982, Johnnie Taylor, “What About My Love”, in Just Ain't Good Enough:
- So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to have changed my mind, sometimes my mind is all that’s changed.2006 Baggs, Amanda, Changes in Self-Awareness Over Time, Disclaimer on Assumptions, [http://] ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=294 May 2006
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- Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61:
- I’m looking for the ladies in this frantic sea But then I change my mind and I fall in love with me2025 July 19, Pacifik, “Semicherubino”, in Wonderfool, performed by Pacifik: