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

The day they spent, exhausted together on the crossroads of here and gone, is the kind of convergence they make movies about, so we forget it really happened.

From Los Angeles Times

"Twenty-four hours in Milan, I will never forget it."

From BBC

Because horror teaches one eternal lesson: No matter how hard we try to forget it, no matter how deeply we bury it, the past always comes back.

From Slate

They’re defrocking the Mets down to their vagabond shoes that are longing to ... oh, forget it, one shouldn’t need to crib from a corny song to describe what is happening here.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, my worthless partner just mumbled that I should “Forget it, go back to sleep, it’s fine.”

From Los Angeles Times