think of sth
— phrasal verb with think uk/θɪŋk/us/θɪŋk/verb thought, thought
B1 to produce a new idea or plan:
We'll have to think of a pretty good excuse for being late.
More examples
- Luckily, Dan thought of using the wire to pick the lock.
- We should have thought of phoning you.
- A ladder would have been a good idea, but we didn't think of it.
- We tried to think of a way for him to earn money.
- Can you think of a good reason to ask for some more money?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- suspicion
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