Meaning of on the tip of one's tongue | Babel Free
Definitions
Known but not quite able to be recalled.
Equivalents
Deutsch
auf der Zunge liegen
Ελληνικά
στην άκρη της γλώσσας
Español
en la punta de la lengua
Suomi
kielen päällä
Français
sur le bout de la langue
Italiano
sulla punta della lingua
Nederlands
op het puntje van zijn tong
Polski
na końcu języka
Português
na ponta da língua
Examples
“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 […]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.