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tell me
Idioms and Phrases
Also, tell me about it . I know, I agree with you, as in Since the layoffs I have been overloaded with work—Tell me! or We had a hard time finding the place.—Tell me about it! It took me all morning . Identical to a literal request to be told about something, this expression must be distinguished from it by the context and the speaker's tone. [ Colloquial ; second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Senior SNP figures tell me that independence will feature in their national campaign and ministers have promised one further paper completing their independence prospectus in the coming months.
"I'm here every day and that's what everyone tells me. They tell me they're fed up of Labour and the Conservatives."
“It’s an easy question for a patient to ask their physician: ‘Tell me what you think the best case is?
Tell me what you think the worst case is?’ ” she said.
"She phoned me...to say she's sorry to tell me and that she thinks Karen has died. That was the first I heard about it," he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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