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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

  1. (idiomatic) 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

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.

Words near now that you mention it in the dictionary

  1. now I've heard everything
  2. now I've seen everything
  3. now now
  4. now or never
  5. now that
  6. now that you mention it
  7. now that's what I call
  8. now then
  9. now there's a thought
  10. now we're talking
  11. now what

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