tell me

Idioms  

1. Also, tell me about it. I know, I agree with you, as in Since the layoffs I have been overloaded with work—Tell me! or We had a hard time finding the place.—Tell me about it! It took me all morning. Identical to a literal request to be told about something, this expression must be distinguished from it by the context and the speaker's tone. [Colloquial; second half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Kelly: Tell me something about yourself that would surprise me.

From BBC

"My twins are not sleeping at night. They tell me 'mummy I am scared to sleep because when I close my eyes I see Ibrahima'."

From BBC

“I have people from Nashville tell me they run into more of their friends here than they do in the city,” said Sullivan.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now that I’m a dad, no one can tell me when I have to stop.

From The Wall Street Journal

Elisha was disappointed in Maggie’s broken promise; but even he couldn’t resist asking for a bit of celebrity gossip, “Tell me how Mrs. Pierce got on!”

From Literature