English

Verb

change one's mind

1. (idiomatic) To decide differently than one had decided before.

   She started up the stairs, changed her mind, and turned to go back down.

   • 2006 Baggs, Amanda, Changes in Self-Awareness Over Time, Disclaimer on Assumptions, [http://] ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=294 May 2006:

     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.

Related terms

• change of mind
• change someone's mind

Translations

See also

• have second thoughts, prevaricate, think better of, waffle, change of heart