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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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
What is really necessary is to make up one's mind.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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)
The flesh of the penguin is black and leathery, with a strong fishy taste, and one must be very hungry to make up one's mind to eat it.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel