half a mind Идиома
have half a mind
feel tempted or inclined to do something I have half a mind to go and offer my resignation to the president.
have half a mind to
(See have a mind to)
Half a mind
If you have half a mind to do something, you haven't decided to do it, but are thinking seriously about doing it.
half a mind|half|half a notion|mind|notion
n. phr.,
informal A wish or plan that you have not yet decided to act on; a thought of possibly doing something.

Used after "have" or "with" and before "to" and an infinitive.
I have half a mind to stop studying and walk over to the brook. Jerry went home with half a mind to telephone Betty.half a mind
A moderate, irresolute, or broad affection or intention. My flight home was so terrible, I accept bisected a apperception to address a letter to the airline aggregation and complain. We set out on the alley with alone bisected a apperception as to area we would go!Learn more: half, mindhalf a mind
An affection that is not audible or resolute. For example, I've bisected a apperception to bead the course, or He went out with bisected a apperception to airing all the way there. [First bisected of 1700s] Also see have a acceptable apperception to. Learn more: half, mindhave a good/half a apperception to, to
To be acerb absorbed toward; to be somewhat absorbed toward. The aboriginal appellation began activity aback in the fifteenth aeon as accepting a great mind to do something, as in “I accept a abundant mynd to be a carnal man” (John Bale, Kyng Johan, ca. 1550). In 1674 Lord Clarendon wrote in History of the Rebellion, “The battle of Lorrayne had a actual acceptable apperception to get a basement in Ireland.” The additional phrase, which implies indecision—half of one’s apperception inclines one way and the added bisected the added way—was accepted by 1700 or so and appeared added and added generally in the nineteenth century. “She had bisected a apperception to reply,” wrote Edward Bulwer-Lytton (My Novel, 1853).Learn more: good, half, have, mind