now that you mention it
now that you mention it is the alternative form of now you mention it.
Meaning of now you mention it
Adverb
now you mention it
- Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.
- 'I—I—I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.' / 'No. Now you mention it,' said Billy, 'you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running—much. Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?'1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 196
- Synonyms:
- come to mention it, now that you mention it
Questions about now that you mention it
- What is now that you mention it the alternative form of?
- Now that you mention it is the alternative form of now you mention it.
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