for your information
prep_phrase1
Colloquial Used to introduce a rebuttal to the interlocutor's previous statement, especially when the statement angered or offended the speaker.
- For your information, my son was a straight A student in college, so he's not just some schmo!
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Colloquial Used as a satiric preface to highlight information that an interlocutor should already know or should be able to surmise.
- For your information, you're reading English in Wiktionary.
- "Buddy." I'm always "buddy". I'm a girl for your information, forever in this situation, waiting and hoping he'll notice how I'm feeling.2010, “Lost in the Brass”, in Gaby Alter, Thomas Newman (lyrics), Band Geeks:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see for, your, information.
- I kept the dates and times in the logbook for your information.
- Synonyms
- FYI
- Related terms
- as a matter of fact, for the record