OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 20994

on the tip of one's tongue

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en la punta de la lengua
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…
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