tell me

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Also, tell me about it . I know, I agree with you, as in Since the layoffs I have been overloaded with work—Tell me! or We had a hard time finding the place.—Tell me about it! It took me all morning . Identical to a literal request to be told about something, this expression must be distinguished from it by the context and the speaker's tone. [ Colloquial ; second half of 1900s]

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She'd tell me that 60 to 70 was already acceptable for a high-performance athlete.

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The minister added: "I'm going to go on the basis of facts, and I'm going to follow them wherever they tell me. Wherever they tell me there are victims that need help, that is where I will go."

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As the Crucible Project helped me find my way toward life as a fully realized man, I noticed a curious omission in the staff-men’s teachings: Even on the third and final day—“Reclaiming the Masculine Soul”—they did not tell me what such a soul looked like.

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But when I asked the same men to tell me what true masculinity actually was, most turned to vague abstractions.

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In the lead-up to the retreat, I asked a male friend to tell me the three things he most disliked about me; he assured me such honesty could only do our relationship harm.

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