cross someone's mind

English

Verb

cross someone's mind (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's mind, present participle crossing someone's mind, simple past and past participle crossed someone's mind)

1. To come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly.
   • 2014, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, page 300:

     Sometimes it crossed my mind that I hadn't had one of those strange spiritual experiences since my time at Vons. I wondered if perhaps they had stopped for good.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: käydä mielessä, juolahtaa mieleen
• French: traverser l’esprit, venir à l’esprit (fr)
• Romanian: îi trece prin cap