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Tip of my Tongue

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To have a thing on the tip of my tongue means to have it so pat that it comes without thought; also, to have a thing on the verge of one’s memory, but not quite perfectly remembered. (In Latin, in labris natat.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Timoleon
Timon of Athens
Tin
Tine-man (The)
Ting
Tinker
Tintagel or Tintagil
Tintern Abbey
Tintoretto
Tip
Tip of my Tongue
Tip One the Wink (To)
Tiphany
Tiphys
Tipperary Rifle (A)
Tippling Act (The)
Tippling House
Tipstaff
Tiptoe of Expectation (On the)
Tirer une Dent
Tiresias

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