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on the tip of one's tongue en · ADP

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Meanings

1. Known but not quite able to be recalled.
   • Her name is on the tip of my tongue: it's Kathy, or Karen, or something.
   • 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 […] 2001, Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN:

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presque vu · lethologica · TOT

Translations (34)

ca a la punta de la llengua (known but not quite remembered) · sh na vrhu jezika (known but not quite remembered) · nb ha det på tungen (known but not quite remembered) · it sulla punta della lingua (known but not quite remembered) · ro pe limbă (known but not quite remembered) · pt na ponta da língua (known but not quite remembered) · es en la punta de la lengua (known but not quite remembered) · nl op het puntje van zijn tong (known but not quite remembered) · de auf der Zunge liegen (known but not quite remembered) · ru на ко́нчике языка́ (known but not quite remembered) · sv ha något i bakhuvudet (known but not quite remembered) · gl na punta da lingua (known but not quite remembered) · tl nasa dulo ng dila (known but not quite remembered) · km នៅចុងៗមាត់ (known but not quite remembered) · sv ha något på tungan (known but not quite remembered) · ga ar bharr do theanga (known but not quite remembered) · ga ar bharr do ghoib (known but not quite remembered) · gd air bàrr teangaidh (known but not quite remembered) · el στην άκρη της γλώσσας (known but not quite remembered) · tr dilin ucunda olmak (known but not quite remembered) · wa l' awè sol betchete del linwe (known but not quite remembered) · fr sur le bout de la langue (known but not quite remembered) · cmn 一時想不起來 /一时想不起来 (known but not quite remembered) · yi אויף שפּיץ צונג (known but not quite remembered) · fa دانستن چیزی ولی فراموشی موقتی آن (known but not quite remembered) · nb ha noe på tungen (known but not quite remembered) · ka ენაზე მოადგება (known but not quite remembered) · wa l' awè sol dibout del linwe (known but not quite remembered) · uk на кінчику язика (known but not quite remembered) · ru крутиться на языке (known but not quite remembered) · hu a nyelve hegyén (known but not quite remembered) · pl na końcu języka (known but not quite remembered) · eo sur la pinto de la lango (known but not quite remembered) · fi kielen päällä (known but not quite remembered)