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Old July 24, 2009, 10:51 AM
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Meaning I was thinking of something else, or I was absent-minded. Do you have an expression with "head" like my head was somewhere else.?
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Yes that's it. More often we use mind instead of head.
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I agree with Poli.

Tienes la cabeza en otro sitio.
Your mind is elsewhere.
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