forget it

Idioms  

1. 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 easy”; and in Forget it—you'll never understand this theorem it means that the possibility of your understanding it is hopeless. [c. 1900]

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forget it

Pro tip: Don’t set it and forget it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

HR: I do think that it’s easy to forget all of that, because I think we all wanted to forget it to a certain degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Each new tournament seemed to bring some fresh calamity—and 45 million Argentines wouldn’t let him forget it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

I was in the chamber for that vote, and I will never forget it.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Related Words

• back down
• back off
• cancel
• deny
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• repeal
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• rescind
• reverse
• revoke
• rule out
• take back
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