forget it

Idioms and Phrases

Overlook it, it's not important; you're quite mistaken. This colloquial imperative is used in a variety of ways. For example, in Thanks so much for helping—Forget it, it was nothing , it is a substitute for “don't mention it” or you're welcome ; in Stop counting the change—forget it! it means “stop doing something unimportant” in You think assembling this swingset was easy—forget it! it means “it was not at all easy”; and in Forget it—you'll never understand this theorem it means that the possibility of your understanding it is hopeless. [c. 1900]

Example Sentences

As for you, Miss Aileen Armagh-and-don't-yer-forget-it, you can't pull away from me now.

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