never mind
Idioms-
Don't worry about somethingdon't trouble yourselfit doesn't matter. For exampleNever mind what I saidit wasn't important or Never mindyou can always take the driver's test again . This expression employs mind in the sense of “care about something,” a usage dating from the late 1700s.
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Alsonever you mind . Don't concern yourself with thatit's none of your businessas in Never you mind where I plan to buy the new TV . [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
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In Octoberhe effectively saidnever mind.
Never mind that Mr. Bush repeatedly made that point himselfincluding by visiting a mosque in the District of Columbia and calling Islam “a religion of peace” less than a week after 9/11.
“Never mind. I shouldn’t have said anything.”
From Literature
If you're goingthen never mind the flowers in your hair.
From BBC
Their performances are so large and earnest and melodramatic—Mam in a broad Irish brogueConstance with a pinched malevolence—that two actresses of their staturenever mind talentwould certainly have caught a whiff of the ham in the air.
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