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can't for the life of me

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can't for the life of me
if you say you can't for the life of you remember something, you mean that you cannot remember it at all. I know I filed it somewhere but I can't for the life of me remember where.
See also: can't, life
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Fill a person with love for themselves, and what runs over will be your share, says a certain witty and truthful Frenchman whose name I can't for the life of me remember.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
I can't for the life of me see what right you have to ask me mine, or to question me at all, for that matter.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
Even now I can't for the life of me understand why you should have worked it in so extraordinary a manner.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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