Say
Telling
Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.
Both words in one sentence
- This trope, astonishingly enough, is not about telling someone to say their prayers.
Source: Say Your Prayers - She did once say something similar - to a courtier who was telling a dirty joke in the presence of a group of young children.
Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics - Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016) makes a joke about the voices in her head telling her to kill people, only to say she's kidding and they didn't really say that.
Source: Funny Schizophrenia
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