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never mind
Don't worry about something, don't trouble yourself, it doesn't matter. For example, Never mind what I said, it wasn't important , or Never mind, you can always take the driver's test again . This expression employs mind in the sense of “care about something,” a usage dating from the late 1700s.
Also, never you mind . Don't concern yourself with that, it's none of your business, as in Never you mind where I plan to buy the new TV . [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
Never mind that the violence was confined to a few downtown blocks, a fraction of a city that spreads over 500 square miles.
Never mind the accuracy of his words or the wisdom of his actions.
Never mind the mounting evidence to the contrary — the 5.17 earned-run average through his four starts this season, the two starts that weren’t interrupted by rain in which he failed to complete five innings, the unremarkable high-80s-to-low-90s fastball, the career-low strikeout rate.
That Teleprompter-ready rhetoric doesn’t remotely resemble anything our president would say in a more natural context, but never mind.
They have no track record of election, never mind government, at any level in Scotland.
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