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do you read me?

Idioms  
  1. Do you understand me? For example, I'm sick of all these meetings—do you read me? This phrase originally applied to messages received by radio or telephone. [c. 1930]


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"Sgt Meyer! Sgt Meyer! This is Col Kingery, do you read me?" he says.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2018

“Grandma? Grandma, do you read me? Grandma? Grandma?”

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Calling strange spaceship—you must be a spaceship, in spite of your tremendous, hitherto-considered-impossible mass—" a thought impinged on all four Tellurian minds, "do you read me?"

From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

"Uh, hello, Control, this is Red Three, do you read me?"

From Sound of Terror by Don Berry

"How do you read me, Frenchy old horse?"

From Subspace Survivors by H. R. van Dongen

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