Meanings
- simileSynonym of mind like a sieve.
Charming woman, but with a memory like a sieve. The sort who's always losing one glove at the theatre. Naturally she wouldn't remember a butler's name. She probably thought all along it was Fotheringay or Binks or something. Very common, that sort of mental lapse.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLCSynonyms: mind like a sieve
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of mind like a sieve.
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