you know

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Idioms and Phrases

You are aware, you see, do you remember, as in She's very lonely, you know, so do go and visit , or You know, this exhibit ends tomorrow , or You know that black dog our neighbors had? She was run over a year ago . This phrase is also quite often a conversational filler, equivalent to “um” and occasionally repeated over and over (as in It's a fine day for, you know, the beach, and, you know, we could leave now ); this usage is more oral than written, and many consider it deplorable. [Late 1500s]

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Lee's prediction: Do you know what, I am going to go with Southampton to get a draw.

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“That’s how we were raised — the loyalty aspect. Stay at one company, get a gold watch, you know, all those sorts of, ‘Oh, it showed loyalty to the school, the state.

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You know what I was thinking about with those lines?

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And the cop wasn’t cool: “You know how fast you were going?”

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You know, Van Halen wasn’t a pop band, really, but really we were.

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