Idiom
don't tell me
Meaning
Used to introduce a guess at a fact or situation, as if forestalling the other speaker's utterance.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Don't tell me you forgot your keys again.”
“Don't tell me you already finished that entire book in just one afternoon.”
“Don't tell me that after all our careful planning, you have decided to abandon the project entirely.”
Examples
simple
“Don't tell me you forgot your keys again.”
contextual
“Don't tell me you already finished that entire book in just one afternoon.”
complex
“Don't tell me that after all our careful planning, you have decided to abandon the project entirely.”
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