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never trust me

never trust me phrase: used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.

Phrase

never trust me

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) Used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
    • Pet[ruchio]. Now for my life Hortentio feares his Widow.
      Wid[ow]. Then neuer truſt me if I be affeard.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.1888, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654

Questions about never trust me

What does never trust me mean?
Never trust me means used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
What part of speech is never trust me?
Never trust me is a phrase.

Words near never trust me in the dictionary

  1. never start a land war in Asia
  2. never the twain shall meet
  3. never the wiser
  4. Never Trumper
  5. Never Trumpers
  6. never trust me
  7. never was
  8. never waste a crisis
  9. never you mind
  10. never've
  11. never-be

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