blow someone's mind
(Redirected from blow your mind)
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Verb
[edit]blow someone's mind (third-person singular simple present blows someone's mind, present participle blowing someone's mind, simple past blew someone's mind, past participle blown someone's mind)
- (idiomatic) To astonish someone; to flabbergast someone.
- 1966, Donovan (lyrics and music), “Sunshine Superman”:
- I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind / Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
- 1974, Barry White (lyrics and music), “Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”:
- Still I keep loving you / More and more each time / Girl, what am I gonna do / Because you blow my mind
- 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):
- Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.
- 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 53:
- We brought him out of retirement. He is awesome. He's a slow-talking Texan, and he will blow people's minds.
Translations
[edit]to astonish
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