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What does pray tell mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pray tell? Here's what it means.

Interjection
  1. (archaic) Please explain (something the requester does not yet understand).
  2. (sarcastic) Expressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts).
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Well, Major, pray tell us your adventures, for you have frightened us dreadfully.
And what, pray tell, would happen in such a system if the warned musician did not show sufficient ''improvement'' to satisfy their colleagues?
How pray tell have we humans managed to put a plethora of dune buggies on Mars but are apparently unable to come up with an effective stratagem for killing roaches?
And what, pray tell, was Atilla's grand prize?
And who, pray tell, provided the female voice on the other line?
So what, pray tell, does a television series about two grown men doing battle by holding hands look like?

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