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forget
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forget about something
do not expect something. The hotel has room service, but forget about anyone wheeling an elegant meal into your room.
See also: about

forget (about) it

1. do not even ask about it. People point at our car when we drive down the road, and when we stop somewhere, forget about it. I enjoyed dinner, but as for the party, well, forget it!
Usage notes: used to say that something was so extreme it would be impossible to describe it, and sometimes humorously spelled fuggedaboutit to show how it is said
2. do not think or worry about it. Want to have it all? Forget it! It can't be done. One editor's attitude was, if you understood all of it, fine, and if not, forget about it.

forgive and forget

to accept and not think about what someone has done to you. If they can admit they were wrong, then they can surely forgive and forget.
See also: forgive


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And quite frankly, I need to hear that regularly because I'm a slow learner and a fast forgetter.
We can work it out: it's possible to repair a frayed relationship ... by Schorn, Joel / U.S. Catholic
While trying to suppress their memories, the best forgetters displayed particularly intense blood flow--indicating elevated neural activity--in the prefrontal cortex and unusually little blood flow in the hippocampus.
Brain may block out undesired memories by Bower, B. / Science News
Thus, for a community out of step with the rest of society, the confession of failings served to recall both backsliders and forgetters to the perfection (the Way of Life) to which they were called at the time of their preparation for baptism.
The purifying confession of failings required by the Didache's ... by Milavec, Aaron / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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