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slip one's mind

Idioms  

  1. Be overlooked or forgotten, as in I meant to pick up the wine but it slipped my mind. This idiom was first recorded about 1340.

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Financial assets — like meetings with Russian officials — can easily slip one’s mind.

From Washington Post

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