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what do you know

Idioms  
  1. What a surprise, as in What do you know, our suitcases are the first off the plane. [Early 1900s]


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So what do you know about how your mom was detained?

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

Yet by now, you’d have heard the rumblings, and the rumors, and what do you know: they are true.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2024

It looks like chicken, it smells like chicken and, what do you know, it tastes like chicken.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023

“I went to him and said, ‘Here’s the information I already have, what do you know about this?’” she said.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2023

And what do you know, I have it here, this heart-shaped Valentine’s box Kevin Connelly gave me but last year.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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