| 释义 | someone's/something's name escapes youidiom
 used to say that you cannot remember someone's or something's name:
 The film starred a famous actress whose name escapes me.
 It was a quote from a writer whose name escapes me just at the moment.
 You recognize his face, but his name escapes you.
 I bumped into her in some department store whose name escapes me right now.
 We had a spicy soup (the name escapes me) and some noodles.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Forgetting and forgetfulness
 absent-minded
 absent-mindedly
 absent-mindedness
 amnesia
 amnesiac
 anterograde
 blot
 bury
 erase
 featherbrained
 forget
 forget itidiom
 forgetful
 forgetfully
 oblivion
 retrograde
 retrograde amnesia
 rustily
 scatterbrained
 scatty
 
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