you see

you see

Used as an introduction to an explanation. Many criticize the narrator as being deeply unlikable and downright unreliable, but, you see, that's the entire point of the story! You see, because you didn't repay the loan within two months, the contract stipulates that the lender is entitled to increase interest on the amount by up to 75%.
See also: see
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

you ˈsee

(spoken) used when you are explaining something: You see, the thing is, we won’t be finished before Friday.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • mildly
  • That's putting it mildly
  • janky
  • laine
  • errors and omissions excepted
  • except
  • scold
  • scold (one) about (something)
  • scold about
  • scolding
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"Did you see that?" exclaimed Aydan Kizildrgli, a student from Turkey who had also been snarled in traffic.
That is obviously going to create a major player in NYC and I am wondering what type of impact you see for your firm or just for the market itself.
He would take a rock from me and skip it so the water would ripple and ask me, 'You see how that water did that?
At the same time you see Best Buy coming into the marketplace.
REW: Do you see the strong dollar affecting New York retailers?
"If you look at a frontal mass cross-section of the plane, you see a cylinder of aluminum skin with stringers.
"When you see leasing increase and sublease space drop like it did this year, that's an indication that the business community has confidence again, and future progress is likely.
I think it's true of all great artists that the more you see, the more you want to see.
For the argument that the telescope exemplifies the transition from a traditional understanding that reality is what you see to a modern definition of reality as that which is invisible, see Blumenberg, 617-74.
how, whether metaphorically or literally, "you see things," and
Unless you see do fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide." (Hurston, Their Eyes 7)
When Janie explains to her friend Pheoby the reason that simply telling her story will not suffice, why she needs to provide the "'understandin' to go 'long wid it,'" she employs a metaphor of vision: Unless you see the fur, you can't tell a mink from a coon.
So, you see, the Afghan people have suffered more than I can describe and certainly more than you can imagine.