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How to read (transcription):
[veer-TYE-tsa na ya-zy-KYE]
Translation / meaning:
lit.: to spin on the tongue
When something is “spinning on your tongue”, it means you are desperately trying to remember someone’s name, a word or expression, but it does not pop up in your memory.
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