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"(idiomatic) To be unable to recall a required piece of information."
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
"word": "ei tulla mieleen"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
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"word": "trou de mémoire"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "mieć pustkę w głowie"
},
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
"word": "dar um branco"
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"ref": "1856, Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead, volume 2, page 472",
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"ref": "2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
"text": "When she brainstormed about what else she would do, where else she would go, her mind drew a blank.",
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"To fail; not to find anything; to produce no successful response."
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"(idiomatic) To fail; not to find anything; to produce no successful response."
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"word": "vetää vesiperä"
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
"word": "ei tulla mieleen"
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
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"word": "trou de mémoire"
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"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
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"word": "mieć pustkę w głowie"
},
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "being unable to recall a piece of information",
"word": "dar um branco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idiomatic: to fail",
"word": "vetää vesiperä"
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"word": "draw a blank"
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