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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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So what, pray tell, does a television series about two grown men doing battle by holding hands look like?
And what, pray tell, was Atilla's grand prize?
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?
But pray tell me, why and when you were condemn'd to the gallies.
If this is what he did to a paragraph in a forgettable speech, what pray tell did he do to something that really mattered?
What, pray tell, incredulous Bloc MPs are now wondering caused such a glowing reaction to budget 2009 in la belle province?

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