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forget it
Idioms and Phrases
Overlook it, it's not important; you're quite mistaken. This colloquial imperative is used in a variety of ways. For example, in Thanks so much for helping—Forget it, it was nothing , it is a substitute for “don't mention it†or you're welcome ; in Stop counting the change—forget it! it means “stop doing something unimportant†in You think assembling this swingset was easy—forget it! it means “it was not at all easyâ€; and in Forget it—you'll never understand this theorem it means that the possibility of your understanding it is hopeless. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
After the joint session of Congress last month, he walked down to the Supreme Court justices in attendance and shook Chief John Roberts' hand saying, "thank you , thank you, I won't forget it."
Roberts is no doubt aware that the comment Trump made after the big speech last month thanking him and saying "I won't forget it" went viral.
The Telegraph's TV critic Anita Singh said it was "a devastating watch", adding: "It is a drama so quietly devastating that I won't forget it for a very long time."
It leaves me unsure of what to do or how to forget it.
Given what a pop culture juggernaut “The White Lotus†has become, it is easy to forget it was conceived as a stopgap — a show that could be made quickly and safely in a single, isolated location during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when HBO was in desperate need of fresh programming.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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