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what do you take me for?

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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Nearby words

wharve, wharves, what, what about, what do you know, what do you take me for?, what for, what gives, what goes around comes around, what have you, what if
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.