boggle (one's)/the mind

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boggle (one's)/the mind

To thoroughly overwhelm, confuse, or surprise one. The show of support from everyone just boggled my mind. The plot of that move totally boggled my mind—did you understand it?
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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 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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When a man is confused (even as confused as I am), he has two options: to remain confused and get more confused as time goes by, or put aside his silly fears, step up to the plate, be a man and ask the questions that so boggle his mind. I have summoned my courage and have made a decision to be a real man and ask all these pertinent questions.
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