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Meaning of "on the tip of one's tongue" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE

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Definition of on the tip of one's tongue in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE

on the starboard bow
on the stocks
on the streets
on the strength of
on the stroke of
on the stump
on the sunny side of
on the surface
on the table
on the tiles
on the town
on the track of
on the trot
on the turn
on the understanding that
on the up and up
on the upgrade
on the wagon
on the wallaby
on the wane

WORDS THAT END LIKE ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE

adder´s-tongue
beardtongue
bluetongue
chaise longue
dog´s-tongue
double-tongue
egg and tongue
hart´s-tongue
hound´s-tongue
langue
mother-in-law´s tongue
mother tongue
native tongue
out-tongue
oxtongue
sharp tongue
silver tongue
single-tongue
the rough side of one´s tongue
tongue
wooden tongue

Synonyms and antonyms of on the tip of one's tongue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «on the tip of one's tongue» into 25 languages

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The translations of on the tip of one's tongue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «on the tip of one's tongue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

对一个人的舌尖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en la punta de la lengua de uno
570 millions of speakers

English

on the tip of one´s tongue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक जीभ की नोक पर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

على طرف اللسان واحد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

на кончике своего языка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

na ponta da língua de um
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এক জিহ্বা এর টিপ উপর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sur le bout de la langue de l´un
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pada hujung lidah seseorang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

an der Spitze der Zunge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自分の舌の先端に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하나 의 혀 의끝에
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing tip saka lidah siji
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trên đỉnh của một lưỡi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரு நாவின் முனை மீது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एखाद्याच्या जिभेच्या टोकाशी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dilinin ucunda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sulla punta di una linguetta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na czubku własnego języka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

на кінчику своєї мови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pevârful limbii cuiva
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στην άκρη της γλώσσας ενός ατόμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

op die punt van ´n mens se tong
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

på spetsen av en tunga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

på spissen av en tunge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of on the tip of one's tongue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE»

The term «on the tip of one's tongue» is normally little used and occupies the 117.044 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE»

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Wittgenstein and William James
Second, and more fundamentally, it's not an experience anyway. “Interpretedas experience it does indeed seem odd.” Ifwe don't interpret the word on the tip of one's tongue as an experience, the oddity allegedly disappears. James had written ...
Russell B. Goodman, 2002
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Tip-of-the-tongue States: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and ...
In a phenomenological sense, the word genuinely feels as if it is on the tip of one's tongue, regardless of whether one speaks English, Arabic, or Chamarro. Because these languages evolved in different parts of the world at different points in ...
Bennett L. Schwartz, 2001
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英語イディオム出題ランキング:
on the edge of on the eve of on the grounds that.. on the path to on the tip of one's tongue O on track O to one's face O O O O O O (on the edge of The country is on the edge of starvation. 3 on the eve of On the eve of my trip. I made a hotel ...
小林敏彦, 2003
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Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial ...
1.7 Guide through this book Phenomenologically, the intense co-presence of phonetic and semantic precategorial information can be observed in the Tip-of- the-Tongue phenomenon, when one has on the tip of one's tongue a word that will ...
Reuven Tsur, 2012
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The Tip of the Tongue State
... a person is unable to think of a word that he is certain he knows, the state of mind in which a word seems to be on the tip of one's tongue. ... If you are unable to think of the word but feel sure that you know it and that it is on the verge of ...
Alan S. Brown, 2012
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Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking
One can also taste the bitter qualities of aspirin on the tip of one's tongue. See Baldy, The University Wine Course, p. 24. Nevertheless, we register basic tastes at different temporal rates: we taste sweet qualities sooner than bitter qualities, ...
Fritz Allhoff, 2009
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Chambers Idioms
tip be on the tip of one's tongue to be almost, but urn not, spoken or said: Her name is on the tip of my tongue ( = I can't quite remember it); It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him (= I almost told him). just/only the tip of the iceberg see ice. tip ...
8
Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... tip somebody the wink give somebody private information; wam somebody secretly on the tip of one's tongue about to be spoken or remembered It was on the tip of my tongue, but I remembered just in time that you had asked me not to tell.
Vijaya Kumar, 1998
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
fr be on the tip of one's tongue to be almost, but usu not, spoken or said: Her name is on the tip of my tongue (= I can't quite remember it); It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him (= I almost told him). just/only the tip of the iceberg see ice. tip ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Textbook on Legal Language and Legal Writing
To hold one's tongue: To be silent. On the tip of one's tongue: On the point of being said. . With one's tongue in one's cheek: To intend to convey one meaning while actually expressing another. Down in the mouth: Low-spirited; discouraged.
Prof. Dr. K. L. Bhatia

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ON THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE»

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Life Hack: Ex-FBI Agent's Top Tips For Influencing, Attracting, and …
Carefully watch colleagues for pursed lips or lip touching, signs that an opposing statement is on the tip of one's tongue. Before they can speak ... «Monsters and Critics.com, Dec 14»
2
The Gentleman Sports Fan's Guide to Heckling
It's easy to run your mouth, but a true gentleman lets the smack linger like a well-aged Scotch might on the tip of one's tongue. The trick is to ... «Bleacher Report, Jan 14»

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