| 单词 | you tell me |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou tell me (also us) (f) colloquial. you tell me (also us): used rhetorically to express (shared) inability to answer a complex or awkward question. ΚΠ 1956 W. Armstrong Mutiny Afloat xv. 199 ‘One ruddy quarter of our pay, an' for what reason?..’ ‘You tell us, mate. Your guess is as good as mine.’ 1976 A. K. Ramanujan tr. U. R. A. Murthy Samskara iii. ii. 108 In these times, who can spend two rupees for the bus so often, you tell me. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 3. 17 Garner... So, you don't want to be here. You've already been given a bad time..from that point, where do we go? Lucy... You tell me. 1993 ‘J. le Carré’ Night Manager (1994) xix. 304 Daniel again interrupted: ‘How do you save the world?’ ‘You tell me, old heart,’ said Corkoran. ‘Dying to know.’ 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xxxii. 344 Is it over? You tell me. Is it my baby? She says so, but she would, wouldn't she? < as lemmas |
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