Anybody I know?

Anybody I know?
Anyone I know? & Anybody I know?
a coy way of asking

who?

Sally: Where were you last night? Jane: I had a date. Sally: Anyone I know?

Bill: I've got a date for the formal next month. Henry: Anybody I know?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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