now you mention it
now you mention it adverb: used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.
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
- ― Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too inquisitive?1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 575
- Synonyms:
- come to mention it, now that you mention it
Synonyms of now you mention it
Origin of now you mention it
Shortening of now that you mention it
Questions about now you mention it
- What does now you mention it mean?
- Now you mention it means used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.
- What part of speech is now you mention it?
- Now you mention it is an adverb.
Words near now you mention it in the dictionary
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