get the memo
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get the memo (third-person singular simple present gets the memo, present participle getting the memo, simple past got the memo, past participle (UK) got the memo or (US) gotten the memo)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, memo.
- To receive an item of information.
- (informal, chiefly in the negative) To be aware of the current state of affairs.
- 2010, Ana Homayoun, That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week, Penguin, →ISBN:
- They've gotten it into their head that there's a mystical secret to academic success, and they just didn't get the memo.
- 2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty of the Broken, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- My alarm clock didn't get the memo about the day off. Iggy's must have because I can hear him snoring through his bedroom door.
- 2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health[1]:
- It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.