think on (someone or something)
think on (someone or something)
To contemplate, ruminate over, or reflect on something. I've been thinking on this issue all week, and I've come up with a few possible solutions. A: "I'm not willing to uproot my whole family just for some job." B: "Look, just think on it for a couple days, all right?" I found myself thinking on my best friend from elementary school the other day. I wonder what ever happened to him?
See also: on, think
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
think (up)on someone or something
to contemplate someone or something; to muse or reflect on someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) I thought upon Abraham Lincoln and how much we all owe him. I thought on all the fine things we used to do.
See also: on, think
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- think on
- have got a leg up on (someone)
- many's the time (that)
- is it
- many a time
- many and many's the time (that)
- many 's the time
- languish
- languish in
- carry a torch for somebody