you know what

See also: you-know-what

English

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Phrase

you know what

1. (idiomatic) Used, often as a question, to get someone's attention before announcing something.

   Synonym: you know something

   • 2001 May 10, "Blake's Attorney on Bakley's Murder", CNN Live (transcript)

     Well, you know what, he's got a cloud over him. You have to live with who you are and make your peace with your maker about what you really are.

   • 2009 March 23, Alex Hawgood, “The Three-Ring Circus”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Well, I guess I’ve got to say, I love the Madonna one that we did — the Drowned world tour. Actually, you know what? The first Blonde Ambition tour I loved. The “Vogue” thing — that was a memorable moment in my lifetime.

Related terms

• guess what
• you know
• you-know-what
• you know what I mean
• if you know what I mean
• you know what they say

Translations

used to get attention

• Bulgarian: знаеш ли какво? (znaeš li kakvo?)
• Catalan: saps què
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 你知道吗, 我要说

• Estonian: tead mis, teate mis pl
• Finnish: tiedätkö mitä sg, tiedättekö mitä pl
• French: tu sais quoi, vous savez quoi
• Hungarian: tudod mit
• Italian: sai cosa
• Korean: 있잖아요 (itjanayo), 있잖아 (itjana)
• Polish: wiesz co, wiecie co (plural)
• Portuguese: quer saber
• Romanian: știi ce, știi ceva
• Russian: зна́ешь что́! (znáješʹ štó!)
• Spanish: sabes qué
• Swedish: vet du vad, vet du
• Ukrainian: а зна́єте (a znájete)