Talk:I believe you, thousands wouldn't

"I believe you": emphatic agreement (archaic)?

• 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

  'Do they often go where glory waits 'em, and leave you here?'
  'Oh, yes; I believe you they do,' returned the small servant. 'Miss Sally's such a one-er for that, she is.'

Equinox ◑ 16:42, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

It also appears in an example in Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873): "Few, used to signify the reverse, thus:—'Don't you call this considerably jolly?' 'I believe you, my bo-o-oy, a few.'" Equinox ◑ 18:48, 1 October 2022 (UTC)