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I tell you

phrase

Etymology

From Etymology 1, or a calque of Hokkien 我共汝講 /我共汝讲 (oá kā lí kóng, “let me tell you something; listen up”).

Definitions

  1. Synonym of I can tell you.

  2. Used to draw attention to something one has to say.

    • Today weather fucking hot I tell you.
    • Luckily for us your son earns a good living. I tell you. I don’t know what we did when Jack was in school.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for I tell you. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA