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but who's counting

but who's counting phrase: used as a retort or comeback, often to deprecate oneself or another for excessive concern or attention to detail.

Phrase

but who's counting?

  1. (colloquial, humorous, rhetoric, sarcastic) Used as a retort or comeback, often to deprecate oneself or another for excessive concern or attention to detail.
    • There are only 258 more shopping days until Christmas, but who's counting?
    • You've made that mistake eight times now. But who's counting?

Forms of but who's counting

alternative formwho's counting

Questions about but who's counting

What does but who's counting mean?
But who's counting means used as a retort or comeback, often to deprecate oneself or another for excessive concern or attention to detail.
What part of speech is but who's counting?
But who's counting is a phrase.

Words near but who's counting in the dictionary

  1. but if
  2. but me no buts
  3. but seriously folks
  4. but that
  5. but then
  6. but who's counting
  7. but's
  8. but-
  9. buta
  10. butabarbital
  11. butacaine

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