Meaning of count 'em | Babel Free

Definitions

Emphasizes a number; literally, check the number yourself.

informal

Examples

“Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]”

“Once I went to Greece with a man who had left his wife and six—count 'em, six—children.”

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