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boggle the mind

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boggle the mind

also boggle your mind

to shock or surprise you He has a record of arrests for shoplifting that boggles the mind. It just boggles my mind how many people think they're the only ones who are having a hard time.

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boggle the mind

Bewilder or astonish with complexity, novelty, or the like, as in The very magnitude of the Milky Way boggles the mind. The source of this usage is unclear, as the verb to boggle has several other seemingly unrelated meanings-to shy away, to hesitate, to bungle. [Second half of 1900s]

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