mind's eye, in my
mind's eye, in my
In my imagination. This figure of speech dates from the early fifteenth century. Thomas Hoccleve used it in De Regimine Principium (1412): “Haue often him byfore your myndes ye.” So did Shakespeare in Hamlet’s statement to Horatio that he thinks he sees his dead father: “In my mind’s eye” (Hamlet, 1.2).
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- flea in one's ear, to have a
- dressing down, a
- black book, (put) in one's
- good graces, to be/get in one's
- cold shoulder, to give/show the
- by no stretch
- brouhaha
- plain as day/the nose on your face
- kiss the blarney stone, to
- beyond imagination