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Intend to, as in I meant to go running this morning but got up too late, or I'm sorry I broke it--I didn't mean to. This idiom was first recorded in 1560.
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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