Idiom
now you mention it
Meaning
Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Now you mention it, I do feel quite hungry.”
“I did not notice the strange noise earlier, but now you mention it, the engine does sound a bit odd.”
“Although I had initially dismissed the discrepancy as a minor clerical error, now you mention it, the pattern does suggest a more systematic problem with our accounting.”
Examples
simple
“Now you mention it, I do feel quite hungry.”
contextual
“I did not notice the strange noise earlier, but now you mention it, the engine does sound a bit odd.”
complex
“Although I had initially dismissed the discrepancy as a minor clerical error, now you mention it, the pattern does suggest a more systematic problem with our accounting.”
Origin
A shortening of the phrase *now that you mention it*, appearing in the written record by at least the late 19th century as a conversational formula for acknowledging a newly introduced topic.
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