spare me
Don't bother explaining
Spare me is a dismissive interjection expressing disbelief, impatience, or refusal to hear more.
It rejects what someone is saying as tedious, unconvincing, or unwelcome: Spare me the excuses.
The phrase comes from the older sense of sparing someone an unpleasant experience, but the tone is usually exasperated or sarcastic: Oh, spare me—I've heard this story before.
- have mercyShow compassion, forgive
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- forgiveCease to blame
- pleaFormal request or defense
- begAsk with desperation
beg for mercy · excuse · relent · pity · sarcasm · eye roll · eyeroll · oh please · give me a break · cut the crap · exasperation · lecture · details · long story short · sob story · drama · enough · please
- sarcastic phraseswhatever, who cares, yeah right, so what, why bother
- dismissalsgo away, get out, leave, scram, beat it
- exasperationugh, sigh, groan, argh, geez
- have a heartplease, mercy, pity, have mercy, show mercy
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
spare mego on
Continue doing something
tell me more · fascinating · keep talking · pray tell · what else
spare, spares, spared, sparing, sparingly, spareness, myself