at the back of your mind

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   if a thought, etc. is at the back of your mind, you are aware of it but it is not what you are mainly thinking about

   I have to admit, in the back of my mind I was praying, he wouldn't get fresh and all of the while I was wondering why and a little bit girl should attract him, then all of a sudden he said, I couldn't go wrong with the way of all flesh.

In the movies · 1

• I have to admit, in the back of my mind I was praying, he wouldn't get fresh and all of the while I was wondering why and a little bit girl should attract him, then all of a sudden he said, I couldn't go wrong with the way of all flesh.She Loves Me2016
• But like in the back of your mind you're like, "Yes, for sure."Free Solo2018
• Go back home and mind your pa!O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
• I can t let you go back unless you change your mind and build your summer home somewhere elseThe Emperor's New Groove2000
• Go back to your shrimp basket, mind your own fuckin' business!Dinner in America2020

From the same entry

• the back of beyond
• back to back
• back to front
• be glad, to see the back of
• behind back
• be on back
• break the back of
• get back up
• get off back
• have back
• have your back to the wall
• off the back of a lorry

More idioms

• be asking for trouble
• every bit as good
• only have yourself to blame
• let's hear it for
• on display
• say the word
• mean to say
• see the world
• at the crack of dawn
• be all the rage
• frighten to death
• have a bone to pick with