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meme /mi; strong miː/ ●●● S1 W1 pronoun [object form of ‘I’] - Bud was sitting across from me.
- He reminds me of David Bowie.
- Judy, bring me that book.
- Kiki gave it to me for Christmas.
- You guys go without me.
► me and my big mouth (=said when you wish you had not told someone a secret) ► Blow me down Blow me down if she didn’t just run off! ► never cease to amaze me The things people will do for charity never cease to amaze me (=I am always surprised by them). ► common sense tells you/me etc something· Common sense tells me that I should get more sleep. ► It depresses me that It depresses me that nobody seems to care. ► that’s fine by me/that’s fine with me etc spoken (=used when saying that you do not mind about something) If Scott wanted to keep his life secret, that was fine by her. ► you don’t/can’t fool me You can’t fool me with that old excuse. ► my feet are killing me informal (=my feet are hurting) ► Forgive me, but Forgive me, but I don’t think that is relevant. ► forgive me for asking/saying etc something also forgive my asking/saying etc Forgive me for saying so, but that’s nonsense. Forgive my phoning you so late. ► It gives me great pleasure It gives me great pleasure (=I am very pleased) to introduce tonight’s speaker. ► The suspense is killing me What happened next? The suspense is killing me. ► know me from Adam She didn’t know me from Adam (=she did not know me at all), but she was really helpful. ► if my memory serves (me correctly/right) (=used to say that you are almost certain you have remembered something correctly)· If my memory serves me correctly, Johnson was also there. ► that’s a new one on me spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’ ► that reminds me (=used when something has just made you remember something you were going to say or do) Oh, that reminds me, I saw Jenny in town today. ► see right through me I can’t bluff – she’d see right through me. ► Spare me ‘They own three houses. One in the country, one in ...’ ‘Spare me.’ ► It was stupid of me It was stupid of me to lose my temper. ► it doesn’t surprise me I didn’t know you two knew each other. Mind you, it doesn’t surprise me. ► the suspense is killing me Come on then, tell me what happened; the suspense is killing me (=I feel very excited or anxious because I do not know what will happen next). ► What do you take me for Of course I won’t tell anyone! What do you take me for? (=what sort of person do you think I am?) ► what worries me is .../the (only) thing that worries me is ... The only thing that worries me is the food. I don’t want to get food poisoning. ► me too- Dear Melissa I really fancy this boy and I think he likes me too.
- It put me too far away, a little off the emotional page.
- McMurphy says good morning, and I keep quiet even though she says good morning to me too, out loud.
- She like what Nancy say. me too.
- She saw me too, no doubt, but that was it.
- The other two, second and third sisters, teased me too, but their taunts held no malice.
- You can drive me too far.
► me neither- I understood the running part, but it brought me neither honor nor status.
- When he turns up, he ain't going to want me neither.
► me time► allow me- Another of my promotions, if you will allow me to bask a little in his glory.
- Civil and commercial litigation allows me to help a client stand up for his rights.
- In the meantime, I hope you will allow me and my family a few hours of peace to think about things.
- It also allows me to determine the location and scale of a work in context.
- Most of them allowed me to use their names.
- The other photos on this fantasy book cover are of the people who allowed me to draw portraits of their lives.
- This play is allowing me to do what I trained to do.
- Will you allow me my conjugal rights?
► if you ask me- All this stuff about poisons in the water supply is a load of hogwash, if you ask me.
- He's just plain crazy if you ask me.
- If you ask me, getting rid of the death tax is the best thing they could do.
- But the policeman wouldn't even have noticed, if you ask me.
- Good for him, if you ask me.
- Hanging around the house with a parson has saved the day, if you ask me.
- He's too keen, if you ask me.
- I give him my input if he asks me.
- Looks as if it should have been done hours ago, if you ask me.
- The bloke who made up those tests was the real loony if you ask me.
- There's more dies than lives in these alleys, if you ask me.
► don’t ask me- "How does this thing work?" "Don't ask me!"
► bear with me- Bear with me for a minute while I check our records.
- Bear with me for just a couple of minutes while I find my notes.
- If you'll just bear with me, I'll explain.
- But I hope to learn these soon if anybody will have the goodness to bear with me.
- To explain just why, you will have to bear with me while I explain about the naming of modern medical potions.
► (it) beats me- It beats me how these kids can afford to spend so much money on clothes and CDs.
- How do you measure such a thing? Beats me.
- If he beats me at this game, well, he beats me.
- Pretty secluded. Beats me what he does.
- There's only one thing beats me.
- Though why he wants to call himself a doctor beats me.
- Though why the Good Lord didn't strike Durham itself beats me, instead of causing us all this trouble.
- Well, I don't fight, he beats me up - it's my fault, I provoke him.
► believe (you) me- No, it's too far to walk, believe me.
- And believe me, my wife does not enjoy reminding me twice.
- But I could see from the look in his eyes that he did not believe me.
- Conrad and Philippa don't believe me, not really.
- No, no, believe me, the less she knows of my activities, the better.
- Oh, please, you must believe me.
- There is nothing to do now but wait, and believe me, midnight seems like a week away.
- Those who did believe me offered no solace; only sympathy and empty platitudes.
- You think they gon na believe me?
► between you and me- Between you and me, I don't think she has a chance of getting that promotion.
- Between you and me, I think Elizabeth is a bit of a nightmare.
- But - between you and me - he's really past it.
- But just between you and me and a few hundred miles, thoughts of ancient spirits still trail closely behind.
- C'mon, secretly just between you and me the voice persisted in her head, it would be hard not to.
- I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
- In fact, between you and me, I think she's relieved.
- Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me.
- This has to stay between you and me.
- You know the difference between you and me, Sherman?
► a little bird told me (something)► Bite me!► don’t blame me- Go ahead, but don't blame me if it doesn't work.
► blow/blow me/blow it etc► give me/it a break!► I’m buggered/bugger me!► you won’t catch me doing something- You won't catch me ironing his shirts!
► color me surprised/confused/embarrassed etc► don’t come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me► correct me if I’m wrong- Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you say you'd never met him before?
► somebody will be the death of me► me either- "I've never had a broken bone." "Me either."
- And when I go upstairs with somebody, that isn't me either.
- Books and magazines won't grab me either.
- But he, unconsciously, has not spared me either.
- Don't be writing to me either.
- I didn't look behind me either.
- I don't want to talk about me either, but just be what you are.
- Mrs Cigans can not accompany me either.
- No one ever told me either that a stepmother could suffer so badly from empty nest syndrome.
► If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England► excuse me (for living)!► excuse me- Excuse me - I didn't realize there was anyone in here.
- Excuse me for a minute. I'll be right back.
- Excuse me. I need to get through.
- Excuse me. Is this the right bus to the airport?
- Oh, excuse me, is that your bag I just stood on?
- Oh, excuse me. Did I mispronounce your name?
- Oh, excuse me. I didn't know you were standing in line.
- Answer, all I know is Sam and Diane were there, was there, excuse me.
- If you will excuse me I must get back to lurking.
- Oh excuse me, I am.
- Well, excuse me, M'Lud, there are other explanations.
► far be it from me to do something- Far be it from me to tell you what to wear.
► do me/us a favour!► you could have fooled me- "Look, we're doing our best to fix it." "Well, you could have fooled me."
► forgive me- Forgive me for asking, but how old are you?
- Forgive me for saying this, but you really don't look well at all.
- Forgive me, I didn't mean to offend you.
- And I am almost glad, because now you can forgive me!
- But please say you will forgive me.
- But, if you will forgive me, perhaps I can just correct you on a couple of points.
- I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others.
- I know that you've never forgiven me for what happened, and I don't blame you, darling.
- I must tell you something and you must forgive me.
- Mr. Soames I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not.
- Of course - if you will forgive me for saying so - it is a bit stilted in its present form.
► fuck me► between you, me, and the gatepost► you’ve got me (there)► it/what gets me- Again, it gets me away utterly from television.
- But it gets me out of the house for a while.
- But never mind the niceties: it gets me in.
- But what gets me most is when somebody dies who hasn't really lived.
- Heaven knows I've tried talking to him, but it gets me nowhere.
- Sometimes I can laugh it off but inside it gets me down.
- That's what gets me about it.
- The same old thing - cleaning the same things all the time, that's what gets me.
► give me something (any day/time)- I don't like those fancy French desserts. Give me a bowl of chocolate ice cream any day.
- And so this rural scene to which we had escaped gave me a frame of reference to understand my parents.
- Half an hour later, I was in a forest eating the bread they had given me.
- I gave her your number and told her to give me five minutes to warn you first.
- Just give me the one with 80 percent meat, 20 percent filler.
- Minna pulled away and gave me a look that was part triumph and part astonishment.
- Thelma, haggard and overly lipsticked, gave me a refill.
- They'd be sorry for me, they'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist.
- This gave me more information about the teams than any of the other committee members had.
► don’t give me that► God give me strength!► My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?► my goodness!/goodness (gracious) me!► gracious (me)!/good gracious!/goodness gracious!► it’s all Greek to me► you have me there► so help me (God)- A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.
- But, so help me ... I have done nothing!
► let me be the judge of that► my head/back etc is killing me► (even) if it kills me- I'm going to finish this even if it kills me.
► don’t make me laugh- "Could you finish this by tomorrow?" "Don't make me laugh."
► this/that leads (me) to something- Anything less than that leads to what the theistic traditions frequently refer to as idolatry.
- But the priority is to get off a path that leads to more and more isolation.
- It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education.
- It was a straight road, the kind of road that leads to a temple or a sacred monument.
- So that leads me to think that these sorts of events are not particularly uncommon.
- Then the operatives are more likely to make mistakes when set-ups are constantly changing, and that leads to increased wastage.
- This is the scene that leads to the Giza plateau.
- Those same lessons apply to changing our attitude from one that leads to failure to one that leads to success.
► let me think- I said well, let me think about it.
- These kids were by... gee, let me think.
► cannot for the life of me► don’t give me that line► lucky you/me etc- Here in the Adirondacks, if you were lucky you might have found an orange in your Christmas stocking.
- How lucky you were, I think.
- If you lucky you can do alright.
- If you are lucky you might get a codex thrown in for a good measure for telecomms application.
- It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies.
- You don't know how lucky you are in that respect.
► if you don’t mind my saying so/if you don’t mind me asking► don’t mind me- Oh, don't mind me, I was just thinking out loud.
► me and my big mouth/you and your big mouth etc► that’s news to me!- The meeting's been canceled? That's news to me.
► now you tell me!► pardon me for breathing/living► pardon me- Pardon me, but I'd better answer that phone.
- Pardon me, but that's not exactly what happened.
- Pardon me, can you tell me how to get to the library?
- Pardon me for thinking they were important, pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical, pardon me for loving you.
- And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses?
- I ask you to pardon me.
- Or is it, pardon me for being so vulgar but others will ask the same, her family?
- Rex, pardon me, but you don't seem to be shrugging helplessly or shaking your head.
- You must pardon me, by the way, for speaking to you in this vague way.
► pardon me for interrupting/asking/saying- Pardon me for asking, but where did you buy your shoes?
► you’re putting me on!- Seth is moving to Alaska? You're putting me on!
► rather you/him/her/them than me► do you read me?- I do not want this to happen again! Do you read me?
► remember me to somebody► don’t remind me► let me remind you/may I remind you (that)► run that by me again► search me!► let me see- And Martini rolls a big, let me see, a big nineteen.
- But you could give me this project, put me in charge of the entire operation - and let me see it through.
- I promised to give it the fifty-one hours, so that's, let me see, forty-five left.
- Now let me see if I can split the difference.
- So far, let me see, it's two-eighty.
- Why won't you let me see your schoolbooks nowadays?
► show me the money► make me/you sick- He's so cute it makes me sick.
- It's enough to make you sick, the way they treat old people.
- Another helping will make you sick.
- But it made me sick and dizzy, so I didn't take it.
- Finally, the very thought of one more sweet and sticky mouthful would make him sick.
- He said riding in the ambulance made him sick.
- I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick.
- It made you sick to your stomach.
- It was the suspense that was making me sick.
- The shocking stills above are from the 1992 film and show the Ally McBeal star making herself sick after a binge.
► give me strength!- I felt the blood running down my face, and the pain gave me strength.
- Some one give me strength, I pray.
- To find such understanding in a book gave me strength.
- When things looked dark, when the way was long, you gave me strength to continue.
- You say that I have the endurance - you say it in order to give me strength.
► tell me- Tell me a little about yourself.
- Tell me about Thursday night. Did you visit Mrs Berry?
- Tell me Caroline, do you trust me?
- Tell me where you left the money.
- Tell me, do you think this dress matches theses shoes?
- Come in and tell me what the problem is.
- So tell me - what're you doing in Argentina?
- He told me I was too old to even be considered.
- It was Nina who told me otherwise.
- Look, will you tell me where you are?
- Nobody would dream of coming in uninvited, and telling me to put my cigarette out.
- She told me once that Spiritualists ate sweets during the service.
- She told me what she was looking for in the genealogy some kind of outlaw, I think.
- Then the nurse came to tell me that he wouldn't see me.
- They kept telling me that Dino and Bob and Leonardthey said, Those guys are killers, why are you protecting them?
► you can tell him/her etc from me► don’t tell me- "We finally made it here." "Don't tell me - you couldn't find your keys."
- Don't tell me we're out of milk!
► somebody tells me (that)- Debbie tells me you're looking for a new job.
- He tells me calmly that he would like another bellini at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido.
- He always tells me what to see, what to read.
- He comes back and tells me his bus is forty two.
- Hindsight tells me that I was looking for trouble, but-at the time I knew nothing about it.
- Not in the violence, Tod tells me.
- Rachel tells me not to go to a gay therapist.
- She just calls me up and tells me how cool I am or whatever for an hour or something.
- Something tells me I won't be seeing her for a while either.
► you’re telling me- "Wow, it's really hard working outside all day." "You're telling me!"
► tell me about it- "I'm totally sick of my boss." "Yeah, tell me about it."
- But I was pleased they had told me about it once.
- Can you tell me about it?
- Her father, Meir Ahronson, told me about it himself.
- I remember the day when they told me about it.
- She had had a rewarding session with the dressmaker and wanted to tell me about it.
- You got problems, man, you tell me about it.
► tell me another (one)► you’ll thank me- You'll thank me for this one day, Laura.
► be with you/me- Anywhere I was with you would be home to me.
- At night his song is with me.
- He was with me the night I met Jasper.
- How compatible will you be with me and the other workers?
- I'd wanted Doug to be with me, but he couldn't get the time off.
- Our response should therefore be with you in early May.
- That's how it was with me and I know it was true for many others.
- The monster had promised to be with me on my wedding night, but he had not planned to kill me.
► woe is me- Oh woe is me, another potentially terrific game scuppered by an irritating multiload!
- Our only possible response before such a personal theophany can be: Woe is me!
► words fail me- Just look at this mess. Look at it. It's...Words fail me!
- To get off a train with a total stranger ... I really can not ... well, words fail me.
► (it) works for me/you etc► you had me worried- You really had me worried - I thought you didn't like the present.
► correct me if I’m wrong► don’t get me wrong- Don't get me wrong - I like Jenny, but she can be a little bossy.
- Don't get me wrong, I love my family, I just don't want to be with them all the time.
- I like Jenny, don't get me wrong, but I do think she acts a little childishly at times.
1used by the person speaking or writing to refer to himself or herself: Stop, you’re hurting me. He bought me a drink. Give that book to me. She’s two years older than me. That’s me, standing on the left.2me too spoken used to tell someone that you feel the same way as they do, that you are in a similar situation etc: ‘I’m hungry!’ ‘Me too.’3me neither (also nor me) spoken used to say that you agree with a negative statement that someone has just made: ‘I can’t believe he’s fifty.’ ‘Me neither.’4me time informal time when you can relax or do things that you enjoy doing, usually on your own: Recognize that your partner needs some me time. |