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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Example Sentences

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

Betsie had done my hair that morning, laboring for an hour with the curling iron until it was piled high on my head—and so far, for a wonder, it had stayed.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom