Told

I TOLD YOU SO, phr. (old).—The retort provocant: in modern phrase, ‘So like a woman to say, “I TOLD YOU SO!”’

  1412.  OCCLEVE, De Regimine Principum (Roxburgh Club), 26. I TOLDE HYM SO.

  1609.  JONSON, Epicœne, or the Silent Woman, iv. 2. True. I TOLD YOU SO, sir, and you would not believe me. Mor. Alas, do not rub those wounds … to blood again.

  TO BE TOLD, verb. phr. (Tonbridge School).—To obtain one’s colours in a school team.