if my memory serves me correctly

if my memory serves me correctly

If my memory is correct. If my memory serves me correctly, you were looking for a copy of his new book last time. Good news—we just got some in.
See also: correctly, if, memory, serve
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

if my memory serves me correctly

Fig. if I have remembered it correctly... If my memory serves me correctly, you are the cousin of my closest friend.
See also: correctly, if, memory, serve
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • correctly
  • if memory serves
  • if my memory serves me well, correctly, etc.
  • pass from
  • pass from (something)
  • have a memory like an elephant
  • page in
  • enshrine (someone's) memory in (one's) heart
  • have a memory like a sieve
  • have a mind/memory like a sieve
References in periodicals archive
If my memory serves me correctly, the fire service has not been on strike since the mid-seventies.
YOUR VIEW: Firemen's pay
If my memory serves me correctly, AMERICAN FORESTS has a medal available for heroic action by wildland firefighters.
Letters
If my memory serves me correctly they perform excellent charitable work thinking and caring about less fortunate people around them and performing voluntary environmental good deeds also, most unlike the 'silent' muslim faiths who appear to be in a self-inflicted cocoon of their own within the western world - this faith really makes the effort which ought to be applauded and duly respected - Amen.
Letter: Mailbag - Worthy of praise
Some 4,500 million years ago planet Earth was formed, that's if my memory serves me correctly.
It's only natural..
If my memory serves me correctly, he was approaching middle age and held the record for being the oldest person to cross the channel for years.
Letter: Your view - Top Channel swimmer
If my memory serves me correctly they had been born prematurely, were only just four years old, and had a lot of 'catching up' to do!
Letter: Well done to A-level pupils