Complete Definition of "draw a blank"

English

Verb
draw a blank (see draw for conjugation)

  1. idiom To be unable to produce a required piece of information.

#: I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.

See also
come up empty
on the tip of one's tongue

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