don't I know it
English edit
Etymology edit
A rhetorical question.
Interjection edit
- (informal) I know; I am very familiar with it (some stated fact).
- 1927 April, Boys' Life, page 16:
- "Here's your shirt," said Slippery. "Make it snappy, we're late."
"Don't I know it," replied the Owl, emerging from the closet with his dinner jacket and vest […]
Further reading edit
- “don't I know it”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “don’t I know it!”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.