refresh (your) memory

to help you to remember something.

McNamara has refreshed his memory by listening to a tape recording of the meeting.

Usage notes: often used by lawyers when asking questions in a trial:

“Will this photograph I now show you refresh your memory?”

Edited at refresh & trf here. I'm tempted to label "law" but it is not confined to legal contexts. It is a common cliche in legal proceedings, however. Legal stenographers have a shorthand abbreviation for it. --SL, 8/02

• That's all over!
• That's all she wrote!
• call off something
• call off the dogs
• call on
• call on someone
• call own
• call someone names
• call someone's bluff
• call someone to heel
• call something into question
• call the shots
• call the tune
• call to account
• call to heel
• call up
• call up someone
• call up something
• call your bluff
• call your own
• calm before the storm
• camp follower
• camp out
• can count on the fingers of one hand
• can count something on the fingers of one hand