tell it to the judge

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)I do notbelievewhat you said.2012, Bill Crider,Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen: A Dan Rhodes Mystery, page162:Al slid off Rhodes's back and moved away from him, hands in the air. “I was just being helpful.” “Tell it to the judge,” Rhodes said, and he took off after Frankie.2011, Steven W. Moore,Her Husband's Crossing: A Man Remembering His Past and His Love for One Woman, page130:“Wait a minute, you don't understand, I wouldn`t kill my best friend!” Robert continued yelling. “Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say,tell it to the judge.”2008, Allan Michael Hardin,Sidetracked, page48:“What? No. No! That's not true — he — wait just a —” stammered Fancy. Kinslow cut him off, “Tell it to the judge!”; Synonym ofI don't care;synonym oftalk to the hand.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary