Sometimes the word is on the tip of our tongue, and you just can't get it. It seems that it goes missing, or gone forever.

I agree this one is a stretch. I decided the stripy things were meant to be ties but I couldn't see a well known phrase. I know what a tie is and I know what a score is but I've never heard the expression "tie or tied score". We'd just say "tie" or "draw" for equal scores. The word score would be redundant. Is "tied score" a common expression in the US? Thanks, Jasdip, for posting these.

I got "he's not in there". I'd be unlikely to say "he's out of there" so that one didn't occur to me.

”he line” is 87.5% of the phrase, counting the space. I have a hard time thinkng of all that as “the end” of it. So the puzzle gets my personal 👎 this week but enough of you guys got it so I guess it’s a me issue. I look forward to trying to redeem myself next week!