have a good mind


have a good mind

To strongly feel the urge to do something. I have a good mind to tell those kids to get off my lawn!See also: good, have, mind

have a good mind to

Be strongly inclined to, as in She had a good mind to tell him everything. A slightly weaker form of this idiom is have a mind to, as in I have a mind to spend my next vacation in the desert. Formerly this idiom was sometimes put as have a great mind to. [c. 1400] Also see half a mind. See also: good, have, mind