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I ask you

I ask you phrase: expressing indignation or despair.

Phrase

I ask you

  1. Expressing indignation or despair.
    • "Brain-dead kids. Born losers. No-hopers the lot of 'em. I mean, as a taxpayer, what do they effin' teach 'em in school these days? I ask you!"2016, Jack Chapman, Prodigal Son
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, ask, you.

Questions about I ask you

What does I ask you mean?
I ask you means expressing indignation or despair.
What part of speech is I ask you?
I ask you is a phrase.

Words near I ask you in the dictionary

  1. I am tired
  2. I am twenty years old
  3. I am what I am
  4. I and I
  5. I approve this message
  6. I ask you
  7. I beam
  8. I beams
  9. i before e, except after c
  10. I beg your pardon
  11. I beg your pudding

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