Citations:I see what you did there

Phrase: "(informal) an expression used to point out that another person's joke has been understood..."

 * 2009, Anthony Strong, Chemistry for Beginners, Touchstone (2009), ISBN 9781439108475, page150:
 * “I see what you did there. You were replicating the flirtatious banter of a real romantic encounter.”
 * 2009, Daniel Kelly, "At what reading level are most stories in the Mercury written?", The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas), 16 March 2009, page A4:
 * I see what you did there. You used some of that fancy book learnin' to prove a point, didn't ya?
 * 2010 November 4, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland, "The Apology Insufficiency", episode 4-7 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:05:03-00:05:19:
 * Leonard Hofstadter: Of course, we're in different departments. He's an engineer and I'm an experimental physicist. You know, one of guys who examines the building blocks of creation and says: "Hello, maker of the universe. I see what you did there. Good one."


 * 2010, James Hibberd, "Why This Man Has 40,000,000 Million Viewers", The Hollywood Reporter, 22 November 2010:
 * The audience laughter rolls on a bit longer than you might expect and you sense that some are giving the writers an appreciative nod — Oh, I see what you did there.
 * 2011, Lucy Dillon, The Secret of Happily Ever After, Berkley (2011), ISBN 9781101619582, unnumbered page:
 * “Of course you did,” said Michelle, grabbing her chance to tease him. That was safer ground. “You hero, you. Did you tell him you'd sacrificed your own tatty sweatshirt?”
 * “What? Oh, I see what you did there. Back to me doing this for nefarious reasons. I thought we were past that.”
 * 2011, A. M. Harte, Hungry for You, 1889 Labs (2011), ISBN 9781926959047, page 105:
 * “I see what you did there. Funny, although perhaps too soon after the quarantine to be making jokes?”
 * 2011, Grant R. Jeffrey & Alton L. Gansky, The Scroll, WaterBrook Press (2011), ISBN 9780307729262, page 103:
 * "Wait. I see what you did there. You turned my comment around on me so that it would be an insult. You are one clever gal, Dr. Rodgers."
 * 2011, "Fast chat: Miss Piggy of 'The Muppets'", Newsday, 19 November 2011:
 * Oh, I see what you did there! You made a little "bacon" joke at moi's expense. You got a death wish or something, buster?!
 * 2012, Neil Patrick Stewart, Headlines! Headlines! Headlines?: Read All About 'Em . . . And Guess Which Actually Happened, Adams Media (2012), ISBN 9781440540103, page 68:
 * It's the sad saga of Captain, a green Amazon parrot that was fond of singing and dancing and had the vocabulary of a two-year-old child. Captain became lost in New York in November 2011, and his owner was frantically trying to find him.
 * At least the editor at ABC News had a sense of humor about it, when she decided to forgo the word “area” in favor of the funnier, but far-less-accurate, word “aria.” Nice moves, ABC. I see what you did there.
 * 2012, Chuck Wending, Blackbirds, Angry Robot (2012), ISBN 9780857662293, unnumbered page:
 * "I see what you did there. You're trying to mess with me. That's cool. You know what? I don't wanna know. But here comes the waitress. Do her."
 * 2013, Dave Corbet, From Know-How to Do-How: Breakthrough Change in Business and Life, Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781857885903, unnumbered page:
 * I see what you did there. You turned my statement on its head. That's interesting.