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you're telling me

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Definition of you're telling me

informal
—used to say that one already knows and completely agrees with something that was just said
  • "This hot weather is brutal." "You're telling me."

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you're play

  1. : you are

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telling play

  1. : carrying great weight and producing a marked effect : effective, expressive

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me play

  1. : objective case of i

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