I told you so
English
Alternative forms
- told you so
- told you
- I told you
Phrase
I told you so
- Used to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker/writer that a certain event would happen.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
- "See that, man!" Some flowers and grasses and another leafy branch floated toward us. We both scanned the water and the coastline. Bradley evidently discovered something, or at least thought that he had. He called down for a bucket and a rope, and when they were passed up to him, he lowered the former into the sea and drew it in filled with water. 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!"
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Usage notes
This phrase is often said as "I hate to say I told you so", as a form of paralipsis.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:I told you so.
Translations
told you so!
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