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occur to one
Idioms and Phrases
Come to mind, as in It never occurred to me that he might refuse . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
Maybe a great name will occur to one of you if you stop consciously thinking about it.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then.
This will occur to one as being very similar to the principle of habeas corpus.
Why should it "occur" to one and not the others?
The Grenvilles, the other Lytteltons, and Gilbert West at once occur to one as friends to whom Pitt in youth was tenderly attached.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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