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                           Phrase(s): What can I tell you?  1. Lit. What kind of information do you want?  •  Bill: I have a question. Bob: What can I tell you? Bill: When do we arrive at Chicago?  •  Mary: I would like to ask a question about the quiz tomorrow. Bill: What can I tell you? Mary: The answers, if you know them. 2. Inf. I haven’t any idea of what to say. (Compare this with What can I say?)  •  John: Why on earth did you do a dumb thing like that? Bill: What can I tell you? I just did it, that’s all.  •  Mary: I’m so disappointed with you, Fred. Fred: What can I tell you? I am, too.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs