if memory serves

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if memory serves

  1. If I have correctly remembered the details.
    Synonym: as memory serves
    • 1954, The Accountant, volume 130, page xxxiii:
      But A. P. H. has told us how he has demonstrated, at least twice, that indeed a cheque need not be on paper. Once, if memory serves, he used a table napkin; on the other occasion it was the label of an almost empty wine bottle.

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