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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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My advice was simply to make up one's mind what to read, and then read it.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
When Rendalen was in the humor, he would play by the hour together, just as though no one were in the room; one might make up one's mind to go away at once.
From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
It is impossible to make up one’s mind in the midst of statements so different and yet so positive.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
She rocked her arms, crying, "It is so easy to make up one's mind."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)