miss the memo
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Verb[edit]
miss the memo (third-person singular simple present misses the memo, present participle missing the memo, simple past and past participle missed the memo)
- (informal) To be unaware of the current state of affairs.
- 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Nevertheless, Bumble, the dating app which once styled itself as a beacon of women’s empowerment because heterosexual women had to make the first move, appears to have missed the memo.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, memo.