makes you think
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Used to acknowledge or invite reflection about an event (sometimes facetiously).
- Imagine, now, this irrepressible figure [Boris Johnson] transposed to the Group of 8 summit chamber, or with his finger on the nuclear button, or in the Downing Street equivalent of the White House Situation Room, deciding whether or not to send British troops to war. Makes you think, doesn’t it?2014 September 1, Matthew d’Ancona, “Boris Johnson’s Blond Ambition”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- food for thought, give someone pause, grist for the mill, think twice