bend your mind to

Meaning

1. bend your mind / efforts to sth

   to think very hard about or put a lot of effort into one particular thing

In the movies · 1

• I shall have to bend your supple mind in more strict a fashion.Mansfield Park1999

From the same entry

• bend ear
• bend the truth
• on bended knee
• bend over backwards
• bend the rules
• bend to
• round the bend