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Idiom

do me a favour

Meaning

Expressing incredulity.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Do me a favour, you really think that is true?”

“He told me he would win the race without training, and I just said, do me a favour.”

“When he claimed he had finished the entire project in only ten minutes, I looked at him and said, do me a favour.”

Examples

simple

“Do me a favour, you really think that is true?”

contextual

“He told me he would win the race without training, and I just said, do me a favour.”

complex

“When he claimed he had finished the entire project in only ten minutes, I looked at him and said, do me a favour.”

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