On average, only 0.4 per cent of bags are delayed or mislaid at airports. Heathrow's reported level of failed " baggage connections" is around double that.
She was staying in the house, and one evening, after my aunt had gone to bed, she came down to the library to fetch a book she'd mislaid, like any artless heroine on the shelves behind us.
The second point rested entirely upon the letter to Parker and Perry, written in an unknown hand, and upon the letter penned on board the brig Orleans, which, unfortunately, had been mislaid or lost.
But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel thempass.
心理学百科 The Psychology Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
Absent-mindedness, the sin that manifests itself in mislaid keys and missed appointments, is not so much an error of recollection but of selection for storage.
" Gods! You are stubborn as an aurochs, Stark. " The king looked around the council table. " Have the rest of you mislaid your tongues? Will no one talk sense to this frozen-faced fool? "