英语单词“be on the tip of your tongue”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析
单词
be on the tip of your tongue
释义
be on the tip ofyourtongue
idiomIf something that youwantto say is on thetipofyourtongue, youthinkyouknowit and that you will beabletorememberit verysoon:(想说的话)就在嘴边(很快就会记起来)Hernameis on thetipof mytongue.她的名字就在我的嘴边却一时说不出来。Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examplesto 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.
See more results ?SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesForgetting and forgetfulness- absent-minded
- absent-mindedly
- absent-mindedness
- amnesia
- amnesiac
- anterograde
- blur
- bury
- erase
- featherbrained
- forget
- forget itidiom
- forgetful
- forgetfully
- radar
- remove
- retrograde
- retrograde amnesia
- rusty
- scatterbrained
See more results ?(Definition ofbe on the tip of your tonguefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/be-on-the-tip-of-tongue##