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The expression "dim and distant memory" is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to express the idea of a memory that has become distant and somewhat unclear. For example: "The summer of my childhood is now a dim and distant memory."
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February half-term is but a dim and distant memory – at least it is for the kids.
In that text the worldly and practical involvements of Dasein seem like a dim and distant memory.
I know that a week's a long time in politics, but for Gordon the "I agree with Nick" moment will suddenly seem a very dim and distant memory.
While pleated pieces hinted at a Japanese influence, a orange metallic tracksuit perhaps summed things up best: beautiful, with any relationship to actual athletics was a dim and distant memory.
Many of us have a dim and distant memory of early childhood gaffes with words, of those occasions when you thought you had grasped the meaning of a word only to discover, sometimes in a rather embarrassing way, that you had got the wrong end of the stick and were using the word in an odd and completely different way.
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That feeling is a detached and distant memory.
Anyway, let's take a trip down memory lane to the dim and distant past of five months ago.
"I'm linked to him for a certain incident in the dim and distant past.
Our village church, St. Lawrence, was celebrated by Shelley (1815) for its "dim and distant spire".
Pottering about her house she looks lost and distracted, her mind wrestling with fuddled flashbacks to the dim and distant.
Sometime in the dim and distant 1970s I attended a housing conference chaired by the then Labour Environment chief Peter Shore.
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