lose trace of someone or something

lose trace of someone or something
lose trace of someone or something
Rur. to fail to maintain a way of finding someone or something. •

I lost trace of Walter after we left high school.

I lost trace of the stock certificates after about twenty years.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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