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what do you take me for?

Idioms  
  1. What sort of person do you think I am? For example, What do you take me for, an idiot? This expression dates from the mid-1800s.


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The look on her face says what do you take me for?

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Pay?" echoed the giant, with a grin, "what do you take me for?

From English Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham

Say, what do you take me for anyway?

From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle

Upon this, the bat began to squeal terribly; and he said to the owl, "Pray, what do you take me for, that you use me thus?"

From McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Why what do you take me for, good reader?—what can I possibly want with that?—I, who am about to knock over two roebucks and three wolves?

From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by William Jesse

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