you know

Idioms  

1. You are aware, you see, do you remember, as in She's very lonely, you know, so do go and visit, or You know, this exhibit ends tomorrow, or You know that black dog our neighbors had? She was run over a year ago. This phrase is also quite often a conversational filler, equivalent to “um” and occasionally repeated over and over (as in It's a fine day for, you know, the beach, and, you know, we could leave now); this usage is more oral than written, and many consider it deplorable. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

"And you know what they did? They dropped him at a closed coffee shop."

From BBC

“The only thing you know is that search warrants have been served and executed. You don’t know why, and you don’t know what the genesis of it is,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times

Netflix itself, overly algorithmic, benefits from freestanding producers whose shows succeed by being, you know, good.

From The Wall Street Journal

“And I thought,” Neville explained to me, “that that’s an interesting story to tell, you know, because if you’ve been a famous Beatle since you were 16 or famous since you were 20, it freezes you in a kind of adolescent state. You see this with lots of rock bands.”

From Salon

Did you know that jumping is very effective in building bone density?

From The Wall Street Journal