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I'm Fay Fay. And hello and hello. It's me Neil

Did you see Roy's dog today? Roy has a dog? Yes, it's at Shih Tzu

and he brought her into the office today. She was so cute.

Oh, sorry I missed her. So what was her name?

Um, oh, it escapes me.

What? She escaped? Did you find her?

No, Neil, the only thing that escaped was her name from my memory.

When we say something escapes me, we mean we can't remember something at that moment. I'm sure her name will come to me

eventually. Neil, but what hasn't escaped me is these examples.

Thank goodness.

I went shopping for something but it escapes me what I wanted to buy. When you get, speak to the manager. Her name escapes me, but you'll know who she is.

The keys are somewhere in the house, but it escapes me where I put them.

You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English.

We've been explaining the phrase something escapes me, which

means I temporarily can't remember something.

So I can't remember Roy's dog's name.

He did tell me but um it escaped you can I help

jog your memory was it phido no lucky lassie

toto oh I remember now. It was Laya, named after the fictional character in Star Wars.

How could a name like that escape you? I love that Android thing from Star Wars called

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