English Language & Usage Asked by E-Ching on December 15, 2020
I’m reading The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones, and someone says to a stranger who is helping him, "You’ll know me again, young lady." What does that mean?
I think it must be a British English idiom, because Google says that "you’ll know me again" is also used in Salome and the Head and Bleak House. But I don’t know those works well enough to triangulate a meaning.
In the Bleak House extract, Mrs. Snagsby gives Weevle 'a searching glance'. Presumably the young lady in your book had been looking closely at the man she was helping.
I don't remember hearing anyone say it in real life, but the expression means 'You are staring so hard at me that you are sure to recognise me if we meet again.'
Answered by Kate Bunting on December 15, 2020
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