Talk:I don't know

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British English idiom: used to show that you are slightly annoyed

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British English used to show that you are slightly annoyed

Oh, I don’t know! You’re hopeless!
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/i-don-t-know

--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:28, 3 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

"I don't know about that"

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...can mean that one explicitly disagrees. "Bob should be fired!" "I don't know about that, but he's not the hardest worker, certainly." Equinox 16:39, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Stresses

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http://audio.nctn.uk/ll/I%20don't%20know.mp3 --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)Reply