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believe you me

phrase
/bɪˈliːv juː ˈmiː/UK/bɪˈliv ju ˈmi/US

Etymology

Derived from an archaic English sentence structure. Compare I kid you not.

  1. derived from sentence structure

Definitions

  1. An emphatic form of believe me

    An emphatic form of believe me: you (the subject) had better believe me (the speaker).

    • Well, sir, believe you me, I'll give that lassy as good a strapping as ever she got when she comes back.
    • But many a time, believe you me, I bought a rabbit from you, when I could put something else in the pot...
    • That's change, if you like to call it so. But the heart of things is just the same. Balzac stands for Paris, believe you me.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for believe you me. 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