mark my words
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“You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” Jeanine Pirro said in an appearance on her old stomping grounds at Fox News.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2026
We’re going to end cancer as we know it, mark my words.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Because they no doubt will, mark my words, and you'll want to be good and ready when the time comes.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2021
"I’ve said it’s not going the distance and you can mark my words," said Mayweather.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2017
If you think you are ugly, you will be ugly, mark my words.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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