Oh r-really? Do t-tell?” I quirked an eyebrow back at him.

“ Well, usually it’s best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when you wear the shoes again later.” He paused, smirking. “Also, if
 I was going to paddle barefoot upstream in Yorkshire, I’d wait until at least May before I tried it. But you go ahead, love. You’re clearly a Spartan lass. J.A. Ironside
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The word r-really? do t-tell? is an idiom that means something like “Oh, really? Do tell?�. It is used in a very casual sense that suggests that the speaker does not take the other person seriously. It is typically said to someone who is speaking very informally or casually, but has just made an offhanded statement. The idiom use of t-tell? is the past tense of the word tell, which means to give information about something. It can be used as verb or noun, but mostly as a verb.

The use of t-tell? suggests that the speaker does not think highly of what he just heard and will not listen to it before making his own comment. The context here is that the speaker does not want to hear the information about how to safely cross a stream barefoot then makes an offhand comment about his own experience after having already stated it.

Source: I Belong To The Earth

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