I do
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A traditional phrase said by each of the prospective spouses during a wedding ceremony in order to accept the marriage.
- They'd been pushing for me to get pregnant ever since I said "I do." And now that I was, do you think they were happy? No way.2003, Joanne Kimes, Sanford A. Tisherman, Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do when Your Miracle Makes you Miserable, →ISBN, page 101:
- When she said ‘I do’ at the altar she was deemed to have made herself sexually available to her husband whenever he might wish.2008, Mary Holmes, Gender and Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 75:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, do.