mark my words

Pay attention to what I say, as in Mark my words, that man is not to be trusted. This admonition first appeared in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Isaiah 28:23).

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“In the very last place you look, mark my words!”

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Once I’m his stepfather, I’ll win him over to my way of thinking, mark my words.”

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“But if Lady Constance doesn’t give alternate Sundays as a half day for the servants, there will be plenty of grumbling among them, mark my words.”

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“Mark my words,” she crowed, “once I am seen wearing this, the decorative eye patch will be all the rage. By the weekend, fashionable young ladies all over London will be swaggering about like sailors. Imagine, a lady pirate! What an original idea, and it is all mine!”

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“I will argue that — and you and I are going to be arguing that for a long, long time. Until this documentary is finished. You mark my words.”