DRAW A BLANK

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Be unable to remember

Example:

You are blocking the name of your first wife!

Synonyms:

blank out; block; draw a blank; forget

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draw a blank"):

slip; slip one's mind (pass out of one's memory)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s