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what was your first clue

what was your first clue phrase: a riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion.

Phrase

what was your first clue?

  1. (colloquial, sarcastic) A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion.

Synonyms of what was your first clue

Questions about what was your first clue

What does what was your first clue mean?
What was your first clue means a riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion.
What part of speech is what was your first clue?
What was your first clue is a phrase.

Words near what was your first clue in the dictionary

  1. what time is it
  2. what up
  3. what was someone smoking
  4. what was someone thinking
  5. what was that
  6. what was your first clue
  7. what way the wind is blowing
  8. what wins on Sunday sells on Monday
  9. what with
  10. what would Jesus do
  11. what would you like

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