on the tip of one's tongue

English

Prepositional phrase

on the tip of one's tongue

  1. Known but not quite remembered.
    • 2001, Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN:
      The feeling that a blocked word or name is on the tip of the tongue appears to be a near-universal experience. The cognitive psychologist Bennett Schwarz surveyed speakers of fifty-one different languages and found that forty-five of them contain expressions using "the tongue" to describe situations […]
    Her name is on the tip of my tongue: it's Kathy, or Karen, or something.

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