what do you know
What a surprise, as in What do you know, our suitcases are the first off the plane. [Early 1900s]
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- wharton, edith,
- wharve,
- wharves,
- what,
- what about,
- what do you take me for?,
- what for,
- what gives,
- what goes around comes around,
- what have you
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