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you know something?
Also, you know what? Listen to what I'm going to tell you, as in You know something? He's always hated spicy food, or You know what? They're not getting married after all. Both these colloquial expressions are shortenings (Of Do you know something? or Do you know what?) and are used to emphasize the following statement or to introduce a surprising fact or comment. The first dates from the mid-1900s. The variant, from the late 1800s, should not be confused with what do you know or you know.
Example Sentences
“I started screaming because I thought, you know, something bad was going to happen to me.”
"You're tired, you're confused, you think you know something... but anything can happen," she explained.
“If you know something and don’t say anything about it, that means you’re in agreement. If you don’t say something, that means you’re OK with a 21-year-old child being gunned down in the street like a dog.”
And you know something else, it’s like, with Audubon, somehow I’m just able to make things work.
Freeman played virtually the entire season in six of the last seven years, but he’s only appeared in seven of 17 games this season, so you know something is wrong.
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