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I'll show you
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English
Phrase
phr
en show
prove someone wrong; overturn prejudices; seek vindication
en I'll show them who's the failure in this family!
en 2018-8-1 Jacqui Bealing Winfried Hensinger Progress in Quantum Technology The w:University of Sussex https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/38087 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260115180519/https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/38087 15 January 2026
en 2011 Robert Riggs War in the Land of Morning Calm: A Korean War Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=QPdDiVbyxbIC 1456763350 3 "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.""Don't you believe it, Jarhead," Bernie retorted. "Step outside. I'll show you who's out of shape!" They all laughed.
en 1993-9-20 Arthur Lubow George Wolfe in Progress w:The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/?p=1138081 "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."
en 1993-3-6 w:X-Men: The Animated Series The Unstoppable Juggernaut 1 8 [Jubilee blinds Juggernaut with brief flare]Juggernaut: What's this, the 4th of July? No one told me.Jubilee: Leave him alone!Wolverine: Jubilee, don't.Juggernaut: [Laughs] What's she gonna do, hit me with her diaper?Jubilee: I'll show you, you overgrown trash can![Jubilee vents a stream of plasma behind Juggernaut, almost topples him]
Interjection
vow vengeance
en 2010-8-11 Second follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict UNGA https://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/64/890&Lang=E 104 I was taken into custody by Preventive Security ... The moment I went in to the investigator, he asked me why I had not saluted him, and I replied that I was in a confused state of mind. And because I had not saluted him, he said to me, "I'll show you!" and called in a soldier who held me firmly from behind while blows from the investigator rained down on me. He then escorted me to the torture yard, where the investigator fell upon me, [...] 19 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20220803210259/http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/64/890&Lang=E 3 August 2022
References
I'll show you https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ill-show-you
I'll show him/them etc https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/i-ll-show-him-them-etc
I'll show you/him/them etc https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/i-ll-show-you-him-them-etc https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/i-ll-show-you-him-them-etc