consider, v.i.

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Yes it is; it's under _considering_ prep. sense 3, "_ellipt. Considering
the circumstances; taking everything into account: used _adv._
(_colloq._)," with quotes from Richardson's _Pamela_ onwards.

We'll put it in a more sensible place after revision.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 02:52:21PM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Which isn't in OED either.
>
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> JL
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Fells like a twist on considering:
> >
> > "A pretty good day, considering."
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> > DanG
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> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> OED 5a ("to think deliberately, bethink oneself, reflect") needs a
> >> tweak to cover the rather recent nuance exemplified in a current TV
> >> commercial.
> >>
> >> "A pretty good day - when you consider!"  (Viz., consider that you
> >> narrowly avoided killing yourself.)
> >>
> >> I'd add the whole phrase: "_when you consider_, colloq. when you
> >> reflect on other possible outcomes."
> >>
> >> Undoubtedly a truncation of "when you consider it."
> >>
> >> It seems impossible to Google the intransitive phrase successfully:
> >> exx. with complementary phrases seem unfilterable.
> >>
> >> I'd be surprised if it's more than fifty or sixty years old, at least in
> >> print.
> >>
> >> JL
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