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mean to

Intend to, as in I meant to go running this morning but got up too late, or I'm sorry I broke itI didn't mean to. This idiom was first recorded in 1560.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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