memory like a sieve
Retention severely lacking
To have a memory like a sieve is to be forgetful—information passes through and disappears, like water through the holes of a strainer.
I'd forget my own birthday if it weren't on the calendar—memory like a sieve.
- forgetfulFailing to retain information
- goldfishSmall orange pet carp
- scatterbrainedLacking mental focus
- colanderKitchen bowl for draining
- brain freezePain from cold foods
in one ear out the other · senior moment · amnesia · brain fog · absentminded · strainer · leakage · lapse · unfocused · blank slate · drawing a blank · tip of the tongue · retrieval · recall · lost train of thought · mental block · cognitive decline · distraction
- expressions about forgetfulnessslipped my mind, drew a blank, blanked out, absentminded, mental block
memory retention capacity
memory like a sievephotographic memory
Flawless visual remembrance ability
eidetic memory · total recall · steel trap · mind like a steel trap · elephant memory
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