slip one's mind



slip one's mind

Be overlooked or forgotten, as in I meant to pick up the wine but it slipped my mind. This idiom was first recorded about 1340.
See also: mind, slip

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Grwn-Welsh
'Uriyah-Biblical Hebrew
Haamid-Arabic
Tinek-Slovene
Taha-Arabic
MeinhardMIEN-hahrtGerman