you know something?

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, you know what ? Listen to what I'm going to tell you, as in You know something? He's always hated spicy food , or You know what? They're not getting married after all . Both these colloquial expressions are shortenings (Of Do you know something? or Do you know what? ) and are used to emphasize the following statement or to introduce a surprising fact or comment. The first dates from the mid-1900s. The variant, from the late 1800s, should not be confused with what do you know or you know .

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Freeman played virtually the entire season in six of the last seven years, but he’s only appeared in seven of 17 games this season, so you know something is wrong.

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“You know something’s off, but you can’t quite put your finger on it. And you don’t slow down because you don’t know how to.”

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One of the policies Democrats have is they do a Democratic caucus meeting and come up with a message in this top-down way, like “quid pro quo,” you know, something that half the country probably is like, “�� are you talking about?”

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You know something all of these stories have in common?

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And to me, that was, you know, something that I didn't really want to tell them.

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