cannot for the life of me

cannot for the life of me spokenused to say that you cannot remember or understand something even when you try hard我拼了命也不能，我怎么也不能:•I couldn't for the life of me remember his name.我怎么也想不起他的名字。

• give/allow sb/sth free/full rein
• abovo
• Naima
• sea squirt
• Nike Ajax
• mountaineering
• OTBD
• dead sounding
• be in sight
• gamiers
• Madag
• look to one's laurels
• absence in
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• Chytridiomycetes
• adeno-
• fall to loggerheads
• through road
• drepanium
• limit to
• apogeny
• be my guest
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• pearl farming
• flexi-
• be not built that way
• splenectomized
• pahangs
• the Exchequer
• immediately
• batter upon
• Nebraskan drift
• tummlers
• tontines
• make up one's mind
• Gadarenes
• skimmed milk
• kampongs
• almswoman
• have an ill opinion of
• hepzibahs
• pearly nautilus
• Hunter, John
• myoplasty
• disrespectfully
• evaluates
• social class
• zinc lozenge
• run sb through
• noncaloric
• at someone's disposal
• bond energy
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• hard-liners
• holly fern
• pep talk
• Murat, Joachim
• bumpkinish
• partitives
• mica-schist
• the Prince of Wales
• -metrical
• East Timor
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• your / his / her Royal Highness
• ran-tan
• convectional
• decanically
• dyed-in-the-tartan aristocrat
• stamp head
• out of one’s wits
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• wrist wrestling
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• keep one’s end up
• in one's sober senses
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