mind you
idiom
informal
—used in speech to give stress to a statement that one is making so that a preceding or following statement will not be misunderstood
His advice wasn't very helpful. I'm not criticizing him, mind you.
—often used in British English without youHis advice wasn't very helpful. I'm not criticizing him, mind!
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Carpenter stepped onto the carpet with her hair—still in those wide-barrel curls, mind you—swept up off her neck.
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Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 3 Feb. 2025
On that Sunday at Maranatha, the church was packed, not for the regular church service mind you, but to attend the Sunday school that led up to it.
—Floyd Nelson, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2025
Over at the Sparkle City Disco show, a coven of drunken zoomers—many of whom, mind you, were born after 9/11—are all shimmying jubilantly to songs by Donna Summer, pointing stoically to the ground and then triumphantly up at the ceiling, looking rather a lot like latter-day John Travoltas.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Gleaming Primrose Mirror is 30% off for Black Friday—and mind you, this pretty much never happens.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
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Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 3 Feb. 2025
On that Sunday at Maranatha, the church was packed, not for the regular church service mind you, but to attend the Sunday school that led up to it.
—Floyd Nelson, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2025
Over at the Sparkle City Disco show, a coven of drunken zoomers—many of whom, mind you, were born after 9/11—are all shimmying jubilantly to songs by Donna Summer, pointing stoically to the ground and then triumphantly up at the ceiling, looking rather a lot like latter-day John Travoltas.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Gleaming Primrose Mirror is 30% off for Black Friday—and mind you, this pretty much never happens.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Mind you.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mind%20you. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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