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you know something

you know something phrase: synonym of you know what (“used, often as a question, to get someone's attention before announcing something”).

Phrase

you know something?

  1. Synonym of you know what (“used, often as a question, to get someone's attention before announcing something”).
    • Chris asked, “Sara, you know something. I never stopped to ask you the day of your birthday. When is your birthday?”2015, Joseph I. Rosselli, Uncle Champion I: “The World Beyond the Fence”
    Synonyms:
    you know what

Synonyms of you know something

Questions about you know something

What does you know something mean?
You know something means synonym of you know what (“used, often as a question, to get someone's attention before announcing something”).
What part of speech is you know something?
You know something is a phrase.

Words near you know something in the dictionary

  1. you kiss your grandmother with that mouth
  2. you kiss your mother with that mouth
  3. you know
  4. you know it
  5. you know nothing, Jon Snow
  6. you know something
  7. you know what
  8. you know what I mean
  9. you know what I'm saying
  10. you know what they say
  11. you knows it

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