贵人多忘 guìrénduōwàng great people have short memories Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 贵人多忘事 guìrénduōwàngshì eminent people are forgetful Used as a polite or ironic way to say that someone has a poor memory or has forgotten something; implies that important people have many things on their mind and are thus likely to forget.