don't tell me

phrase

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see don't, tell, me.

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Meanings

phrase
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see don't, tell, me.
  2. idiomaticUsed to introduce a guess at a fact or situation, as if forestalling the other speaker's utterance.
    1 more example

    “Sorry. Excuse me. Am I very late?” Henrietta shrugged. They had travelled the world together on commissions for the Morning Graphic. They had been in many scrapes but the irritation she felt with him never went away. She admonished him. “Don't tell me. You've brought that damn Morgan Aero8 sports car with you, haven't you? You've been trying to park it, keeping me waiting.”

    2009, Ron Morgans, The Emerald Killers
Cite this entry
APA

don't tell me. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/don't%20tell%20me

MLA

“don't tell me.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/don't%20tell%20me. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “don't tell me,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/don't%20tell%20me.

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