spring to mind
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editspring to mind (third-person singular simple present springs to mind, present participle springing to mind, simple past sprang to mind, past participle sprung to mind)
- (idiomatic) To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something.
- 1987, R.C.D. Jasper, Geoffrey J. Cuming, Prayer of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, page 3:
- Two good reasons spring to mind at once.
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editappear in one's thoughts
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