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 you

His advice wasn't very helpful. I'm not criticizing him, mind!

Examples of mind you in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The amplituhedron is an incredibly powerful calculational tool, enabling those who work with them to compute — by hand, mind you — scattering amplitudes for problems that could not have been feasibly calculated even by a computer beforehand. —Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025

Seattle might not be a Super Bowl contender, but ranking the Seahawks 20th — three spots behind the last-place Arizona Cardinals, mind you — definitely feels pretty disrespectful. —Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

And that, mind you, is just to gather enough evidence to convince a judge that there’s probable cause to issue a search warrant. —Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025

And a happy Putin returned to Moscow to unleash more missiles and drones, not to kill Ukrainian soldiers, mind you, but innocent Ukrainian women and children. —Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 21 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for mind you

• amadou
• avenue
• ballyhoo
• baraboo
• barbecue
• barbeque
• bugaboo
• cabildo
• caribou
• cockatoo
• detinue
• devalue