memory jogger
noun1
Something which jogs the memory; an aid for remembering.
- Some weeks had elapsed without one of these memory-joggers, when, to sharpen our recollections, quite an old-fashioned shake occurred soon after midnight of the 24th March.1855, James Melville Gilliss, The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, volume 2, page 108:
- "Hard not to notice. Bit of a memory jogger. Bit of a pointer. Bit of a bloody giveaway!"1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 90: