I told you so

alternative I told you · alternative told you · alternative told you so

1. informalironicUsed to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker or writer that a certain event would happen.

   For the left, the seismic week delivered an “I told you so” years in the making.

   2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, quoting Donald Trump and Fox News, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times (A section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023, page 24

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   “See that, man!”[…]. Of this he took a taste, and straightening up, looked into my eyes with an expression of elation⁠—as much as to say “I told you so!”

   1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 997, column 1

   And when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night ¶ With your head in your hands you’re nothing more than his wife ¶ And when you think about me all of those years ago ¶ You're standing face to face with ""i told you so""

   2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan, Amusement Records; Island Records, →OCLC

   Synonyms: what did I tell you