A phrase used to tell someone to forget what you just said, or to indicate that something is not important enough to worry about.
Compound of 'never' and 'mind,' forming a contraction or compound interjection. Used colloquially since at least the 19th century, it gained even more cultural currency after the 1991 Nirvana album title.
The Nirvana album 'Nevermind' didn't invent the phrase, but it transformed how an entire generation thought about it—the album title captured 90s apathy and angst so perfectly that the phrase became culturally linked to grunge and millennial burnout!
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