"I'll show you" meaning in English

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Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj}} I'll show you
  1. vow vengeance
    Sense id: en-I'll_show_you-en-intj-7DLg~fMA

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} I'll show you
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see show.
    Sense id: en-I'll_show_you-en-phrase--jA1-xPQ
  2. prove someone wrong; overturn prejudices; seek vindication
    Sense id: en-I'll_show_you-en-phrase-ZimQCnU3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 15 59

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          "text": "I'll show them who's the failure in this family!",
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          "ref": "2018 August 1, Jacqui Bealing, quoting Winfried Hensinger, “Progress in Quantum Technology”, in The w:University of Sussex",
          "text": "Athletics gave me persistence as a teenager. [...] I used to train eight times a week. Even in the middle of winter I would break into the stadium and shuffle through snow on the track. [...] Building a quantum computer is like space travel to Mars. For many years, people said this is completely impossible. That's what got me into this field. I thought, I'll show you.",
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          "text": "\"Hey Jack,\" Bobby said, changing the subject. \"Did you notice Bernie in front of the formation tonight? When he saluted Major Reynolds he jiggled. He's gained some weight. Better get in shape if he's going to war.\"\n\"Don't you believe it, Jarhead,\" Bernie retorted. \"Step outside. I'll show you who's out of shape!\" They all laughed.",
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          "text": "\"The fact that I was a [Broadway] director of color directing this play was the most important banner I wanted to wave,\" he said. \"Because I'm breaking a boundary there. Whereas, if the [homo]sexuality is stressed, that excuses on a certain level the racial thing,\" [...] He had returned to his home town of Frankfort, Kentucky, for George C. Wolfe Week. He didn't recall feeling oppressed by segregation while he was growing up, but, as the returning hero, he felt the childhood emotions flooding back. \"It was so interesting, walking into these tiny little shops and going, ‘What was so precious here that a little six-year-old boy couldn't touch, couldn't walk inside of?' \" he said. \"Or the Capitol Theatre—they wouldn't let me go in there? Oh, it's a parking lot now? Good. The first eleven years of my life came rushing back to me with a certain sort of rage. I thought, I'll show you. And it wasn't George Wolfe showing you. It was a little black boy showing you.\"",
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