I told you so

• I told you, told you, told you so

• enPR: ī tōld yo͞o sō
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /aɪ̯ təʊ̯ld juː səʊ̯/, /ʌɪ̯ təʊ̯ld juː səʊ̯/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /aɪ̯ toʊ̯ld ju soʊ̯/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɑe̯ tɐʉ̯ld jʉː sɐʉ̯/; (also General Australian) /ɑe̯ təʉ̯ld jʉː səʉ̯/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /aɪ̯ told jʉ so/, /ʌi̯ told jʉ so/, /əi̯ told jʉ so/
• (India) IPA^(key): /əj ʈoːlɖ juː soː/, /ɑːj ʈoːlɖ juː soː/
• Hyphenation: I told you so!

I told you so!

1. (informal, ironic) Used to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker or writer that a certain event would happen.

   Synonym: what did I tell you

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 997, column 1:

     “See that, man!” […]. Of this he took a taste, and straightening up, looked into my eyes with an expression of elation⁠—as much as to say “I told you so!”

   • 2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, quoting Donald Trump and Fox News, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times (A section)‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2023, page 24:

     For the left, the seismic week delivered an “I told you so” years in the making.

   • 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”‎^[2]performed by Chappell Roan, Amusement Records; Island Records, →OCLC:

     And when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night ¶ With your head in your hands you’re nothing more than his wife ¶ And when you think about me all of those years ago ¶ You're standing face to face with ""i told you so""

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:I told you so.

• This phrase is often constructed as I hate to say I told you so, as a form of paralipsis.

• what you see is what you get

• “I told you so”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.