"say when" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-say when.ogg [Australia] Forms: says when [present, singular, third-person], saying when [participle, present], said when [participle, past], said when [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|say<,,said> when}} say when (third-person singular simple present says when, present participle saying when, simple past and past participle said when)
  1. (idiomatic) An imperative form used to request that the interlocutor indicate when one should stop doing something, esp. pouring a drink, because one has reached a sufficient amount. Tags: idiomatic Translations (imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop): قول بس [South-Levantine-Arabic, dialectal, masculine] (Arabic), 夠就話我知 (Chinese Cantonese), 够就话我知 (gau³ zau⁶ waa⁶ ngo⁵ zi¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 夠了就告訴我 (Chinese Mandarin), 够了就告诉我 (gòu le jiù gàosù wǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), řekni dost (Czech), sige til (Danish), sano, kun riittää (Finnish), szólj, ha elég (Hungarian), szólj, mennyit/meddig töltsek (hogy) (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-say_when-en-verb-zynS0zcy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English sentences, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys

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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
          "word": "够就话我知"
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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
          "word": "夠了就告訴我"
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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
          "word": "sano, kun riittää"
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          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
          "word": "szólj, ha elég"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
          "word": "szólj, mennyit/meddig töltsek (hogy)"
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      "word": "夠就話我知"
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      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "gau³ zau⁶ waa⁶ ngo⁵ zi¹",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "够就话我知"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "夠了就告訴我"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "够了就告诉我"
    },
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "řekni dost"
    },
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "sige til"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "sano, kun riittää"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "szólj, ha elég"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop",
      "word": "szólj, mennyit/meddig töltsek (hogy)"
    }
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