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Idioms and Phrases

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

It cannot sink in my head now, that thou shouldst marry, Why shouldst thou marry, tell me?Rich.

You have told me that if you did not be- lieve it, you would not tell me?Answer.

That consisted mostly of plays of the tell-me-more-about-me-mother type.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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