mind you
idiom
informal
—used in speech to give stress to a statement that one is making so that a preceding or following statement will not be misunderstood
His advice wasn't very helpful. I'm not criticizing him, mind you.
—often used in British English without youHis advice wasn't very helpful. I'm not criticizing him, mind!
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Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, and 8 are taken, in that order, mind you.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Too bad the proposal never actually happens, because Yanko finds out — moments before air, mind you — that his former love, Claire, is in town.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
Creators Elena Bucaccio, Francesco Arlanch and Matthew Parkhill aren’t especially committed to plausible backstory or character development, mind you.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
By the mid-nineties, the mind you were encouraged to develop, at King’s, was basically unchanged from the one students were expected to form in the mid-fifteen-hundreds.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Too bad the proposal never actually happens, because Yanko finds out — moments before air, mind you — that his former love, Claire, is in town.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
Creators Elena Bucaccio, Francesco Arlanch and Matthew Parkhill aren’t especially committed to plausible backstory or character development, mind you.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
By the mid-nineties, the mind you were encouraged to develop, at King’s, was basically unchanged from the one students were expected to form in the mid-fifteen-hundreds.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mind you
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“Mind you.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mind%20you. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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