if memory serves
if memory serves phrase: if I have correctly remembered the details.
Phrase
if memory serves
- If I have correctly remembered the details.
- But A. P. H. has told us how he has demonstrated, at least twice, that indeed a cheque need not be on paper. Once, if memory serves, he used a table napkin; on the other occasion it was the label of an almost empty wine bottle.1954, The Accountant, volume 130, page xxxiii
- Synonyms:
- as memory serves
Synonyms of if memory serves
Forms of if memory serves
| alternative form | if memory serves right |
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Questions about if memory serves
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- If memory serves means if I have correctly remembered the details.
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Words near if memory serves in the dictionary
- if it's not one thing it's another
- if it's the last thing I do
- if it's yellow let it mellow
- if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down
- if looks could kill
- if memory serves
- if money
- if moneys
- if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle
- if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my granddad
- if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike
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