be on about
UK informalIf you ask someone what they are on about, you are asking that person, often in a slightly annoyed way, what they mean:
I dunno what you're on about.
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Meaning & significance
- add
- add up to sth
- badge
- connotation
- denotation
- drift
- drive
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutics
- how
- ie
- loaded
- mean
- modality
- pregnant
- put words in/into sb's mouth idiom
- significantly
- signify
- speak to sb idiom
- word
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