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what am I looking at

what am I looking at phrase: expresses confusion as to the significance of something that the speaker is being shown.

Phrase

what am I looking at?

  1. (rhetoric) Expresses confusion as to the significance of something that the speaker is being shown.

Questions about what am I looking at

What does what am I looking at mean?
What am I looking at means expresses confusion as to the significance of something that the speaker is being shown.
What part of speech is what am I looking at?
What am I looking at is a phrase.

Words near what am I looking at in the dictionary

  1. what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
  2. what a way to go
  3. what about
  4. what about the children
  5. what am I bid
  6. what am I looking at
  7. what am I, chopped liver
  8. what are friends for
  9. what are the odds
  10. what are you doing
  11. what are you like

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