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
Shyam-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Nepali
Ludovicaloo-do-VEE-kahItalian
Mirandamə-RAN-də (English)English, Dutch
Sigal-Hebrew
Andreja (2)-Serbian
Ward[wɔ:d]