for a wonder

Idioms  

1. Surprisingly, strange to say, as in For a wonder he didn't argue with the waiter about the bill. [Late 1700s]

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for a wonder

There isn't too much snow and for once, for a wonder, the dog-hero, though highly talented, doesn't make one wish for an all-canine cast.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was not much worried, for a wonder, about the students of the National University, revolutionists to a man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet not once, for a wonder, do any of the characters appear on a football field.

From Time Magazine Archive

His satire is so complete, in fact, that he has even provided five mock commercials, with Celeste Holm as pitchwoman for a wonder goo called Elixircol.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a ship without sails or sailors came drifting in from sea, they went to meet it looking for a wonder, and sure enough there was a child in the ship.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye