tell you what

短语

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Introduces a compromise or arrangement where the interlocutor has some benefit or advantage.

    非正式

    Tell you what, you can have it for fifty quid if you'll promise to give it a good home.

  2. 2.

    Synonym of I can tell you.

    非正式

    Tell you what, you won't find another one that cheap anytime soon.

词源

Ellipsis of I'll tell you what or I tell you what. The sense introducing an arrangement also corresponds to another, longer established collocation of I'll tell you what I'm gonna do or let me tell you what I'm gonna do.

来源：wiktionary