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Idioms and Phrases
I don't know the answer to that, as in Where's John?âSearch me, I haven't seen him for weeks . This expression in effect means âyou can investigate me completely for the information you want but you won't find it.â [ Slang ; c. 1900]Example Sentences
"How would the police officers search me if they were male?"
Search me, but maybe the answer is in the credits: Maybe he feels that there is an âAbel Tesfayeâ side to his talent that âthe Weekndâ persona does not sufficiently express.
âI told them I wasnât going to give up my constitutional rights, and have them search me every time I go to the store to buy a soda pop or a pack of beer,â said Ruther, sitting in an office chair, clutching a Starbucks cup of coffee and a Newport cigarette.
The Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday amounted to him saying "search me guv, I haven't the foggiest" when he was pressed for any detail about Mr Zahawi's taxes.
âThe song simply says, âLord, you search me.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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