Only when a thought is so clearly on the tip of one's tongue."

A name on the tip of one's tongue.

It was sort of like groping for a memory, something like a word almost on the tip of one's tongue.

And just as a forgotten word sits for hours on the tip of one's tongue, so that inchoate thing lurked at the edge of my mind, slipping away whenever I attempted to focus on it.

Time magazine's Christopher John Farley commented that the song's "groove is penetrating, but the whole thing sounds suspiciously like an Earth, Wind and Fire song that's just on the tip of one's tongue".

Choosing between words--words in context On the tip of one's tongue The written word Words and the poet Sticks and stones: words as reality There is an Afterword that is even friendlier than the text.