don't ask me

Meaning

1. Oxford40% of films

   if you say don't ask me, you mean that you do not know the answer to a question and are annoyed you have been asked

   Hey, don't leave without me.

2. Editorial25% of films

   Used to tell someone to stop questioning you or pressing for an explanation, because you will not say, the subject is painful, or they are better off not knowing.

In the movies · 36

• Atlanta. Don't ask me why. I made this for you.Auto Focus2002
• Don't ask me, ask Max.Once Upon a Time in America1984
• Hey, don't leave without me.Apocalypse Now1979
• Don't ask me why.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• Don't ask me how I know.Unstoppable2010
• So don't ask me to.Me and Earl and the Dying Girl2015
• Don't ask me that.Don't Worry Darling2022
• They don't ask me any questions.Sin City2005

Learn it in full scenes

• Auto Focus2002
  • Lenny Pitches Bob a Sitcom
  • Anne Confronts Bob About the Magazines
  • Bob Meets the VTR Salesman

From the same entry

• ask for it
• be asking for trouble
• don't ask
• for the asking
• I ask you
• if you ask me
• ask after
• ask around
• ask back
• ask for
• ask out
• a big ask

More idioms

• get to the bottom of
• have the time of your life
• about time
• it's no use
• the hard way
• same here
• get this
• lose your temper
• not to mention
• first things first
• look good
• anything like