25 Idioms about Thought and Memory
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
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20 Feb 2020
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