I kid you not.

I kid you not.
I kid you not.
Inf. I am not kidding you.; I am not trying to fool you. •

Bill: Whose car is this? Sally: It's mine. It really is. I kid you not.

“I kid you not,” said Tom, glowing. “I outran the whole lot of them.”


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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