25 Idioms about Thought and Memory

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1.   a light-bulb moment – a moment of sudden inspiration or enlightenment
2.   a senior moment – a momentary lapse in memory
3.   a shot/stab in the dark – a guess
4.   at the back of one’s mind – mildly preoccupied by but not constantly thought about
5.   by no stretch of the imagination – definitely not the case
6.   flight of fancy – an impractical but imaginative idea
7.   in a world of one’s own – concerned with one’s own thoughts and unaware of one’s surroundings
8.   in cloud cuckoo land – a state of over-the-top fantasy
9.   in one ear and out the other – heard but not processed and quickly forgotten
10.   in one’s mind's eye – in one’s imagination
11.   it rings a bell – it sounds familiar
12.   mind over matter – willpower will overcome physical obstacles
13.   out of sight, out of mind – if something is no longer visible, you will soon forget about it
14.   penny for your thoughts? – what are you thinking about?
15.   perish the thought! – stop thinking about that!
16.   to have a brain like a sieve – to be extremely forgetful
17.   to have a mind of one’s own – to be capable of independent thoughts and actions
18.   to have bee in one's bonnet – to be preoccupied by something, to be obsessed with something
19.   to jog someone's memory – to cause someone to suddenly remember something
20.   to slip one’s mind – to be forgotten
21.   to take a trip down memory lane – to take a figurative journey through one’s memories
22.   to think on your feet – to react to events effectively without any preparation
23.   to think outside the box – to think of creative and unconventional solutions
24.   to toy with – to think idly about
25.   train of thought – line of reasoning

25 Idioms about Thought and Memory

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