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I'll show you

I'll show you phrase: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show.

Phrase

I'll show you

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show.
  2. prove someone wrong; overturn prejudices; seek vindication
    • I'll show them who's the failure in this family!
    • Athletics gave me persistence as a teenager. [...] I used to train eight times a week. Even in the middle of winter I would break into the stadium and shuffle through snow on the track. [...] Building a quantum computer is like space travel to Mars. For many years, people said this is completely...2018 August 1, Jacqui Bealing, quoting Winfried Hensinger, “Progress in Quantum Technology”, in The w:University of Sussex

Interjection

  1. vow vengeance
    • I was taken into custody by Preventive Security ... The moment I went in to the investigator, he asked me why I had not saluted him, and I replied that I was in a confused state of mind. And because I had not saluted him, he said to me, "I'll show you!" and called in a soldier who held me firmly...2010 August 11, “Second follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict”, in UNGA, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2022, page 104

Questions about I'll show you

What does I'll show you mean?
I'll show you means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show.
What part of speech is I'll show you?
I'll show you can be a phrase or an interjection.

Words near I'll show you in the dictionary

  1. I'll leave it up to you
  2. I'll pass
  3. I'll say
  4. I'll see myself out
  5. I'll see you and raise you
  6. I'll show you
  7. I'll tell you
  8. I'll tell you what
  9. I'll've
  10. I'm
  11. I'm 'onna

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