no kidding

Idioms  

1. Truly, seriously, as in No kidding, I really did lose my wallet. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

"I arrived in the early morning and I played in the afternoon, no kidding."

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

"Retrieving non-human-origin technical vehicles. Call it spacecraft, if you will. It's probably not the right parlance. But no kidding, non-human, exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed," Grusch said.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023

By the time the Cuban missile crisis rolled around two years later, we had a fully operational bomb shelter and, no kidding, drills — which included a three-minute sprint to change the air filter outside.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022

“Let’s get this all the way across the finish line—not just small elements, not just a reactor on the ground, but, no kidding, let’s go build a spacecraft and put it in space,” he says.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2022

And no kidding, watching him, 1 thought he was going to start bawling, just like Reverend Ballou.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt