Answer by Colin Fine for meaning: may well V
You may well ask is best treated as an idiom. Normally may well means something like it is very likely that, egI may well go to the post office on my way home.means more than just that I may go, but I...
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The usual usage of "you may well ask" is like this, said by one speaker:"'What's all the noise', you may well ask."This is the speaker expressing that they think that another person may have noticed...
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In the following exchange, "you may well ask" is used after a question has been asked.‘What’s all the noise?’‘You may well ask.’But I'm wondering whether "may well V" is normally used after the action...
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