on the tip of one's tongue
English
Prepositional phrase
- 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.
Translations
known but not quite remembered
See also
Further reading
- tip of the tongue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia