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1tell someone where to get off — (informal) To deal summarily or dismissively with someone • • • Main Entry: ↑get tell someone where to get off (informal) To tell someone that his or her behaviour will not be tolerated • • • Main Entry: ↑where * * * tell someone where to get off …
2tell someone apart — tell (someone/something) apart to be able to see the difference between one person or thing and another. One guy s a Democrat and the other s a Republican, but it wasn t always easy to tell them apart. The twins are no longer as hard to tell… …
3tell someone where to get off (or where they get off) — informal angrily dismiss or rebuke someone. → tell …
4tell someone where to get off — ► tell someone where to get off informal angrily dismiss or rebuke someone. Main Entry: ↑tell …
5tell someone where to go — informal phrase to say very rudely to someone that you are not interested in them or in what they are suggesting Josh asked me out, but I told him where to go. Thesaurus: to insult or offend someonesynonym Main entry: tell …
6tell someone where to get off — tell (someone) where to get off informal to angrily refuse to do what someone wants you to do, usually using direct or rude language. She wanted to borrow money again so I told her where to get off …
7tell someone's fortune — tell someone’s fortune phrase to say what will happen to someone in the future using what are claimed to be magic powers Thesaurus: to use, or to be affected by magical or supernatural powershyponym Main entry: fortune * * * I make predictions… …
8tell someone's fortune — ► tell someone s fortune make predictions about a person s future by palmistry or similar divining methods. Main Entry: ↑fortune …
9tell someone where to put something — tell someone where to put (or what to do with) something informal angrily or emphatically reject something I told him what he could do with his diamond …
10tell someone where to get off — tv. to tell someone when enough is enough; to tell someone off. □ I was fed up with her bossiness. I finally told her where to get off. □ He told me where to get off, so I walked out on him …
