hear me out

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear out.

   "I'm serious. Look, I know you don't want to admit you like the guy." She was like a dog with a bone. I shook my head at her. "Hear me out. We go in, we say hi to Cody. When Lucas shows up, we've got a perfect excuse for being here."

   2019, Laura Heffernan, She's Got Game, page 41

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   "Be quiet, I tell you," said his inexorable patron, "and hear me out. We will take him at unawares, so that he shall neither have time to use cutlass nor pops; and I myself, for the dear love I bear him, will be the first to lay him on his back."

   1913 [originally published in ????], Walter Scott, The Pirate, page 286

plural hear me outs

1. InternetA positive opinion, favorite, or crush that could be considered controversial or embarrassing.

   Your “Hear me outs” are lame! This is a hear me out. DF give me these shit boxes!!!

   2024 April 30, Atomik141, Reddit

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   straight men’s worst hear me outs are sarah silverman ¶ ¶ straight women are like bilbo baggins when he’s scary

   2023 April 19, @alex_abads, Twitter

   “You are a coward wearing the facade of a revolutionary” ¶ ¶ -some random TikToker about people’s “hear me outs” not being freaky enough

   2024 May 17, @TheLastEdoka, Twitter