what you see is what you get

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Originally a humorous allusion to a catchphrase popularized by the comedian Flip Wilson on American TV in the 1960s.

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 所見即所得 /所见即所得 (suǒjiàn jí suǒdé) — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Finnish: WYSIWYG — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Finnish: näet mitä saat — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• French: ce que tu vois est ce que tu obtiens — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• German: was du siehst, ist was du bekommst — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Greek: ό,τι βλέπεις, παίρνεις (ó,ti vlépeis, paírneis) — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Japanese: 見たままが得られる (mita mama ga erareru) — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Russian: что ви́дишь, то и полу́чишь (što vídišʹ, to i polúčišʹ) — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output
• Spanish: lo que ves es lo que obtienes — (idiomatic, computing) the screen image resembles the printed output