look here

look here

Listen closely. Often used as a way to emphasize one's authority over the person one is speaking to. Look here, sonny, I've been doing this since before you were born.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

look here

a phrase emphasizing the point that follows. (Can show some impatience.) Henry: Look here, I want to try to help you, but you're not making it easy for me. Rachel: I'm just so upset. Andy: Look here, I just asked you a simple question! Bob: As I told you in the beginning, there are no simple answers.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

ˌlook ˈhere!

(old-fashioned) used when you are going to say something important to somebody and you are annoyed or angry: Look here, I’ve been waiting to be served for half an hour. The service here is terrible. Look here, I paid a lot of money for this car. I certainly didn’t expect it to break down after a month.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • look here!
  • AIIC
  • up with
  • up with (someone or something)
  • motherfucking
  • what, me worry
  • no fox given
  • cat got one's tongue
  • has the cat got your tongue?
  • (Has the) cat got your tongue?
References in periodicals archive
Look Here: Oaks winner switched from Danehill Dancer
4.25 Ascot Sporting (50:25:10) 23-26 Conduit, 15-18 Tartan Bearer, 12-15 Golden Sword, 9-12 Look Here, 6-8 Ask, 5-7 Frozen Fire, Alwaary, 0.5-2 Scintillo, 0.1-1 Rockhampton.
"Things simply haven't gone Look Here's way in her two runs this season," said Sanders.
Another stride and he was back up." Both Richard Hills on Youmzain - "he got there and he stopped, then he went again just after the line" - and Seb Sanders on Look Here felt they had headed the winner..
This was Look Here's first run since her third in the St Leger last September and, despite disagreeing with his jockey, trainer Ralph Beckett now has an ambitious plan mapped out for the filly.
Result Investec Coronation Cup 1 Ask ..................5-1 2 Youmzain ........2-1f 3 Look Here ........9-2 Owner Patrick J Fahey Trainer Sir Michael Stoute Jockey Ryan Moore Groom Sandra Briend Breeder Side Hill Stud Distances Ns, Ns
The main rival among Look Here's seven opponents today looks to be dual Arc runner-up Youmzain, who finished second when beaten in controversial circumstances in this race last year.
Look Here will bid to become the first Oaks winner to triumph in the Coronation Cup since 1984
The Ralph Beckett-trained Look Here, last seen out when third in the St Leger, was trimmed to 4-1 (from 5) by Victor Chandler, who make Youmzain 2-1 favourite and have Yorkshire Cup winner Ask third best at 6-1.
For Look Here, who has not raced since finishing third to Conduit in the Ladbrokes St Leger, the Coronation Cup will provide an examination that Beckett - whose leading light is quoted by Ladbrokes at 5-1 - believes could be informative and rewarding.
The trainer, who revealed that Look Here worked well yesterday, said: "The beauty of the race is that we know she goes around Epsom and that the race should suit her.
Investec Coronation Cup Ladbrokes: 5-2 Youmzain, 5 Ask, Look Here, 7 Casual Conquest, 8 Doctor Fremantle, Frozen Fire, 10 Duncan, 12 Buccellati.
Look Here finished second in this race before winning the Oaks, while Henry Cecil's Ramruma in 1999 was the last filly to win this and the fillies' Classic.
Look Here's trainer Ralph Beckett, who won the race two years ago with Kiyah, returns with Anice Stellato, winner of a Newmarket maiden on her only start, while Look Here and Kiyah's owner-breeder, Julian Richmond-Watson, is represented by Tottie, from the Amanda Perrett stable.
Miracle Seeker was the beneficiary of Look Here's misfortune last year.