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what are you like

what are you like phrase: expressing mock despair at somebody's outrageous behaviour.

Phrase

what are you like?

  1. (Ireland, UK, US, colloquial, obsolete) Expressing mock despair at somebody's outrageous behaviour.

Questions about what are you like

What does what are you like mean?
What are you like means expressing mock despair at somebody's outrageous behaviour.
What part of speech is what are you like?
What are you like is a phrase.

Words near what are you like in the dictionary

  1. what am I looking at
  2. what am I, chopped liver
  3. what are friends for
  4. what are the odds
  5. what are you doing
  6. what are you like
  7. what are you looking at
  8. what are you smoking
  9. what are you waiting for
  10. what are your pronouns
  11. what can I do you for

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