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Idioms and Phrases

I don't know the answer to that, as in Where's John?—Search me, I haven't seen him for weeks . This expression in effect means “you can investigate me completely for the information you want but you won't find it.” [ Slang ; c. 1900]

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"How would the police officers search me if they were male?"

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Search me, but maybe the answer is in the credits: Maybe he feels that there is an “Abel Tesfaye” side to his talent that “the Weeknd” persona does not sufficiently express.

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“I told them I wasn’t going to give up my constitutional rights, and have them search me every time I go to the store to buy a soda pop or a pack of beer,” said Ruther, sitting in an office chair, clutching a Starbucks cup of coffee and a Newport cigarette.

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The Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday amounted to him saying "search me guv, I haven't the foggiest" when he was pressed for any detail about Mr Zahawi's taxes.

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“The song simply says, ‘Lord, you search me.

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