take your mind off

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to make you forget about sth unpleasant for a short time

   It'll take your mind off it.

   Take your mind off tomorrow. I want you to.

In the movies · 5

• Take your mind off tomorrow. I want you to.The Letter1940
• I need to do something to take my mind off her.The Social Network2010
• It'll take your mind off it.Manhattan1979
• ...take your mind off all of this craziness...About Schmidt2002
• Let's try and take your mind off it.Two Weeks Notice2002
• Come on out back for a moment. Take your mind off things.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008
• ...it'll take your mind off crying. It's in the other room!Arizona Dream1993

Learn it in full scenes

• The Letter1940
  • Leslie Confesses After the Shooting
  • Leslie Recounts the Night Hammond Died
  • Leslie Describes Shooting Hammond
• The Social Network2010
  • Erica Dumps Mark at the Bar
  • Mark Builds Facemash
  • Mark Crashes Harvard's Network
• Manhattan1979
  • The Drowning Question at Dinner
  • Isaac and Yale Talk About an Affair
  • Isaac Sends Tracy Home

From the same entry

• be all in mind
• bear in mind
• be bored, frightened, pissed, stoned, out of your mind
• be out of your mind
• be in two minds about doing
• be of one same mind
• be out of your mind with worry
• bring to mind
• come to mind
• have a good mind to do
• have in mind
• have it in mind to do

More idioms

• break the news
• on the ball
• go all the way
• a blast from the past
• a show of hands
• come out of your shell
• from the word go
• get a handle on
• have time on your hands
• keep at a distance
• on the edge of your seat
• take to heart