Idiom
I tell you
Meaning
Synonym of I can tell you.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is a great movie, I tell you.”
“The traffic was terrible this morning, I tell you, and I was late for my meeting.”
“The situation in the city has become quite dangerous, I tell you, and the authorities seem unable to manage the rising tensions.”
Examples
simple
“It is a great movie, I tell you.”
contextual
“The traffic was terrible this morning, I tell you, and I was late for my meeting.”
complex
“The situation in the city has become quite dangerous, I tell you, and the authorities seem unable to manage the rising tensions.”
Origin
From Etymology 1, or a calque of the Hokkien phrase 我共汝講 (oá kā lí kóng), signifying a request for the listener to attend to the forthcoming statement.
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