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boggle
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boggle someone's mind
to confuse someone; to overwhelm someone; to blow someone's mind. The immense size of the house boggles my mind. She said that his arrogance boggled her mind.
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boggle at something

to be amazed at something, particularly something large or surprising. The audience boggled at the size of the loss. I boggled at the damage to my car.

The mind boggles.
something that you say which means that a situation or subject is very difficult to understand or imagine A cloned sheep? The mind boggles. (often + at ) The mind boggles at the thought of what you could do with all that money.
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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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the mind boggles

it is very difficult to understand or imagine The mind boggles at the thought of what you could do with all that money.
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Others--the ones that require ingenuity and a summoning of all the resources at your command--are major, often one-of-a-kind mind bogglers.
 
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