pray tell

[ prey-tel ]

verb phrase
  1. (used to emphasize a request for information, often to suggest that the answer is either obvious or unknowable):You say there is no moon, but what, pray tell, rises in the sky every night?Just what, pray tell, do those people actually do?

Origin of pray tell

1
First recorded in 1840–45

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