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lest we forget

[lest wee fer-get]

idiom

  1. we should not forget (often used as a cautionary phrase).

    Lest we forget, many large conflicts have started over small, insignificant areas.

    Lest we forget, fake news is still with us.

  2. in case you have forgotten (used facetiously).

    The 1980s, lest we forget, was a terrible era for fashion.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of lest we forget1

Refrain from Rudyard Kipling's poem “Recessional” (1897)
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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Lest we forget, there’s a murder, which opens the show in a flash forward; the series catches up with it by the end of Episode 3.

Lest we forget, the Dodgers are first and foremost a business, just like every other professional sports franchise.

Watching from the Mall, Grace Gothard, from Mitcham, made her Union Jack dress draped with the Ghanian flag while Satvinder Cubb, from Chingford made a frock made from two "Lest we forget" scarves.

From BBC

And lest we forget that we live in conservative times, Fleur Fortuné tracks the arc of female bodily autonomy in "The Assessment" and finds that even under liberal rule, powers that be will still legislate uteruses as a solution to a global catastrophe.

From Salon

Lest we forget, Hillary Clinton got 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump did in 2016, but the distribution of those votes turned out to be an insurmountable problem: If we subtract California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York from the overall total, Trump won the rest of the country by 5 million votes.

From Salon

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