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come on

(LACK BELIEF)

Definition

used for telling someone you do not believe what the person is saying or you think the person is not being serious: Oh, come on. You have no evidence whatsoever.
(Definition of come on (LACK BELIEF) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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