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half a mind
n. (context informal idiomatic English) A moderate inclination.
Usage examples of "half a mind".
She had half a mind to fetch a slipper herself and see how far she could push this.
The boy flashed between bursts of yanking on his clothes in a hurry to be out and stopping entirely with boot or shirt in hand to spout dozens of questions that Mat answered with half a mind.
I can never hear such a one without the greatest admiration and respect, and more than half a mind to take orders and preach myself.
She must say that she had more than half a mind to go with the young people.
There, he laid his hand upon the cloth of gold which covered the empty throne, as if he had half a mind to sit down in it--but he did not.