isn’t it, interjectional phrase

colloquial

A rhetorical question, ‘Is that not so?’ Cf. is it.

1956 A. Sampson Drum 85The English just use long words and big talk, isn’t it?

1990 R. Gool Cape Town Coolie 135I am giving my whole life for other people. You get the point isn’t it?

A rhetorical question, ‘Is that not so?’

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