Synonyms

forget it

Idioms

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]

Example Sentences

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“I’ll never forget it,” Cicero said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Forget it. Have fun with Vanessa and Reah. I’m not coming.”

From Literature

“Forget it,” he says, like I’m invisible, a nothing.

From Literature

This is the “set it and forget it” approach.

From MarketWatch

Are we supposed to forget it all?

From BBC

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