back of one's mind

English

Alternative forms

• back of one's head

Noun

back of one's mind

1. 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.

2. The supposed location of low-importance plans within the brain.

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

   • 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.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: w tyle głowy

References

• “the back of one’s mind”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.