When forgetting what to say in Japanese In Japanese, when you somehow can't come up with the word you want to say, you'll say "アレ" like this: 「アレどこいったっけ、ほら、紙切るやつ…」 This is like "Where is THAT,you know, something to cut paper..." in English, I think. "あれ" means "that", indicating something over there or something someone said before. In this case, I like to express it in katakana for a little bit unusual use. But if this use of "アレ" goes too far, one day my mother said: 「アレをアレするのはさすがにアレでしょ～！」 This might be translated as: "It's obviously THAT to do THAT of THAT~!" Of course you can't get what she meant, but before she said it, I said "Don't talk about the ending, I'll read it". So she meant that it's not good to reveal it. We laughed how she forgot things, while all of us could understand what she meant by "アレ". I think this is a example of how context-dependent Japanese is, or this is very usual in other languages?