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do you read me?
Idioms and Phrases
Do you understand me? For example, I'm sick of all these meetings—do you read me ? This phrase originally applied to messages received by radio or telephone. [c. 1930]Example Sentences
“Well, since I’m the C.O., and I like nicknames for my troops, you’ll just have to put up with my nickname for you, White America. Do you read me loud and clear?”
Do you read me loud and clear, mister?”
Do you read me loud and clear?”
“That’s why you’re not going to make it, Atchley. You’ve obviously peaked out as a corporal. Countermanding a statement by a superior officer. Now I want you to forget what happened in here today. Do you read me?”
Picture astronaut Dave Bowman in “2001” locked outside the spaceship saying, “Do you read me, HAL? … HAL? …”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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