on the tip of one's tongue

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Prepositional phrase

on the tip of one's tongue

1. (idiomatic) known but not quite remembered

   Her name is on the tip of my tongue; it could be Kathy or Karen or something.

Translations

known but not quite remembered

• Dutch: op het puntje van zijn tong (nl)
• Finnish: kielen päällä (fi)
• French: sur le bout de la langue (fr)
• Georgian: ენაზე მოადგება (ka) (enaze moadgeba)
• Italian: sulla punta della lingua (it)
• Norwegian: ha det på tungen (no)
• Persian: دانستن چیزی ولی فراموشی موقتی آن (fa)
• Polish: na końcu języka (pl)

• Portuguese: na ponta da língua (pt)
• Russian: на кончике языка (ru) (na kónčike jazyká), на языке вертится (ru) (na jazyké vértitsja) (turns on [my] tongue)
• Scottish Gaelic: air bàrr teangaidh (gd)
• Spanish: en la punta de la lengua (es)
• Swedish: ha något på tungan (sv)
• Yiddish: אויף שפּיץ צונג (yi) (oyf shpits tsung)