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be on the tip of your tongue idiom If something that you want to say is on the tip of your tongue, you think you know it and that you will be able to remember it very soon: (想说的话)就在嘴边(很快就会记起来) Her name is on the tip of my tongue.她的名字就在我的嘴边却一时说不出来。 Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples to forget something forgetI can't believe I've forgotten her birthday! slip your mindI meant to tell you that he'd phoned, but it completely slipped my mind. be on the tip of your tongueOh, what was that movie called? It's on the tip of my tongue. escape youThe name of her book escapes me at the moment. blank outThe dinner where he admitted the affair was so painful that I must have blanked it out. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Forgetting and forgetfulness absent-minded absent-mindedly absent-mindedness amnesia amnesiac anterograde blot bury erase forget forget itidiom forgetful forgetfully forgetfulness oblivion retrograde retrograde amnesia rustily scatterbrained scatty
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