back of one's mind
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edit- One's remote memory.
- 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 44:
- 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.
- The supposed location of low-importance plans within the brain.
- 2008, Major General John Frost, A Drop Too Many[1]:
- In the backs of all our minds was the proud hope that somehow or other we should get there.
- Wallpapering the bedroom has been at the back of my mind for some time now.
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edit- “the back of one’s mind”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.