never trust me
English
Phrase
never trust me
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
- PETRUCHIO: Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
WIDOW: Then never trust me, if I be afeard.
- 1888, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654
- Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.
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References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary