tell me

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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Recently, someone did tell me about a new term: spousal equivalent.

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“Sometimes … it sounds like a song is clearly Tame Impala-influenced, but not to the extent that people tell me.”

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“People tell me that my daughter looks just like me, but I can’t see it,” he continues.

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FR: OK, tell me about all these projects.

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Labour folk tell me it justifies the prime minister's argument – as punchy a case as could be made was made, within the confines of government policy a few years ago and now.