English Dictionary

on the tip of one's tongue

前置詞句

Known but not quite remembered.

日本語の意味

知っているがすぐには思い出せず、記憶に手が届きそうな状態 / 思い出そうとしても、言葉が出ない、脳裏にあるがはっきりしない状態

The name was on the tip of one's tongue, but it stubbornly refused to come to mind.

その名前は喉まで出かかっていたが、どうしても思い出せなかった。

意味（1）

Known but not quite remembered.

The feeling that a blocked word or name is on the tip of the tongue appears to be a near-universal experience. The cognitive psychologist Bennett Schwarz surveyed speakers of fifty-one different languages and found that forty-five of them contain expressions using the tongue to describe situations […]