Mar 25th, 2016, 07:50 am
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| Sue | | Join Date: Oct 8th, 2006 Location: Milan
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 Re: draw a blank
No - as I said : it means "but I wasn't able to ".
in this case it comes out as the same which is why both are possible. In your sentence it means I wasn't able to remember - but that's because of the context, because of what was said before - I tried to remember..... Consider:
I tried to find John's skype address but I drew a blank.
in that context it would mean : I wasn't able to find John's skype address. .
The expression itself has nothing to do with memory |
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