доложу я тебе

• ДОЛОЖУ (Я) ВАМ (ТЕБЕ) coll

[sent; these forms only; used as sent adv (parenth); fixed WO]

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⇒ used when telling one's hearer(s) about sth. unusual, astonishing, outrageous:

- I <I'll> tell you;

- I've got to tell you;

- let me tell you.

     ♦ "Ну и в историйку я недавно влип, доложу тебе", - начал он... (Искандер 2). "Well, I'll tell you, I really fell into something once not so long ago," he began... (2a).

     ♦ Был я, доложу я вам, слаб, капризен и прозрачен - прозрачен, как хрустальное яйцо (Набоков 1). I was, let me tell you, weak, capricious and transparent-as transparent as a cut-glass egg (1a).