make up one's mind
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You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.
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One must make up one's mind to combat their exhibitions of weakness by determining to acquire ease of movement.
From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.
Would it be well, and could one make up one's mind to confine, or drive them all away at once?
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
Now the more sense one has, the more difficult it is to make up one's mind in an affair of this kind.
From Old-Time Stories by Perrault, Charles
In a busy life one would make up one's mind as well as one could, and act.
From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher