freeze (someone or something) in (someone's) memory
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To maintain someone or something in one's memory. I could never forget what it felt like to hold my baby for the first time—I froze that moment in my memory. Of course I remember how I felt when I got that awful news—the searing pain froze it in my memory. I wish we could freeze the good times in our memories and delete the bad times.
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freeze someone or something in one's memory
Fig. to preserve the image of someone or something in one's memory. I tried to freeze her in my memory so I would have her with me always. I froze the scene in my memory.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.