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you don't want to know

you don't want to know phrase: used to suggest that the information being discussed is unpleasant, inappropriate, or potentially upsetting.

Phrase

you don't want to know

  1. (informal) Used to suggest that the information being discussed is unpleasant, inappropriate, or potentially upsetting.
  2. (informal) Used to halt a discussion of a sensitive or undesirable nature.

Questions about you don't want to know

What does you don't want to know mean?
You don't want to know means used to suggest that the information being discussed is unpleasant, inappropriate, or potentially upsetting.
What part of speech is you don't want to know?
You don't want to know is a phrase.

Words near you don't want to know in the dictionary

  1. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
  2. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
  3. you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
  4. you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
  5. you don't say
  6. you don't want to know
  7. you gals
  8. you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
  9. you get that
  10. you get what you pay for
  11. you go, boy

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