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let me tell you


Synonym of I can tell you.

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


SIMPLE

Let me tell you, this pizza is delicious.

CONTEXTUAL

Let me tell you, the traffic was so bad that I arrived an hour late to the party.

COMPLEX

Let me tell you, the sheer scale of the project was daunting, yet the team remained committed to finishing it on time.


Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    a little bird told me

    I received the information from a source which I am not prepared to disclose.

  2. 02

    all told

    With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.

  3. 03

    buy to let

    To purchase a property as in investment, and to let it out for rental instead of living in it

  4. 04

    don't let the door hit you on the way out

    Used as a command to leave in haste, or to indicate that one is glad, or at least unmoved, to see the addressed person leaving.

  5. 05

    don't tell me

    Used to introduce a guess at a fact or situation, as if forestalling the other speaker's utterance.

  6. 06

    I can tell you

    Emphasises the truth of a statement.

  7. 07

    I tell a lie

    I am mistaken; I thought that what I said (or wrote) was true, but I have just realised that it is not.

  8. 08

    I tell you

    Synonym of I can tell you.

Last updated August 10, 2026