count 'em

alternative count them

1. informalEmphasizes a number; literally, check the number yourself.

   Once I went to Greece with a man who had left his wife and six—count 'em, six—children.

   2001, Suzanne Ostro, “Antisocial Baby Notes”, in Rochelle Ratner, editor, Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, page 66

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   Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]

   2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5