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I told you so



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Idioms and Phrases

I warned you in advance, especially of a bad outcome. For example, It's too bad your guests didn't get along with each other, but remember, I told you so .

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Example Sentences

She did not explain this statement in further detail After hitting Obama on foreign policy, Palin decided to play I-told-you-so.

His glance on its way back to the judge met that of Blodgett, which had both a warning and an "I-told-you-so" quality in it.

I stood there in the quiet hall, the old clock ticking away a solemn "I-told-you-so!"

She resented his I-told-you-so air, but she could not help admiring the masterful way in which he had gained his end.

It gives one such a comfortable I-told-you-so sort of feeling to have everything turn out as you prophesied it would.

Behind him, tall and disapproving, with an I-told-you-so in her eye, stood Aunt Maria.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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