thinking to oneself

thinking to oneself
 as in "I thought to myself: ‘We’re lost,’ " is always tautological; there is no one else to whom one can think. Delete "to myself." Similarly vacuous is "in my mind" in constructions like "I could picture in my mind where the offices had been."

Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors. 2013.

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