phrase
General Slang
look you
· phrase · welsh
Welsh-English tag phrase — 'look here', 'see' — pinned to the end of a sentence.
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A tag phrase used to call attention or emphasise a point, roughly 'look here' or 'you see'. Stage-Welsh staple — Shakespeare put it in Fluellen's mouth in Henry V, and it's been doing the rounds in caricatures of Welsh speech ever since. Real speakers do use it, but more sparingly than the telly suggests.
“It wasn't my fault, look you, the gate was already open.”
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look you In A Sentence
It wasn't my fault, look you, the gate was already open.
Origin & Usage
Calque of Welsh discourse markers like 'wel di' / 'edrychwch'; popularised in English by Shakespeare's Welsh characters.
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