have something on the tip of one's tongue
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- Somebody have something on the tip of his/her tongue
- Contexto
- When you have a word on the tip of your tongue it's recommended that you look it up rather than keep searching your brain's clumsy filing system. Neuroscientists studying brain activity have found that the filing system in our brains is more like a messy desk piled high with papers than an orderly filing cabinet. ‘Tip-of-the-tongue’ moments, or ‘TOTs’, occur when we know where the paper (or word) that we are looking for is, but can’t find it right away
- Fuente del contexto
- Magazine
- Tipo de fuente
- magazine
- Autor
- Len Fisher
- Título de la fuente
- Science Focus
- Web
- https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/when-something-is-on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-whats-happening-in-my-memory/
- Observaciones
- Also used in: USA, Mexico, Stockholm, New Zealand, Ireland
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente