Idiom
guess what
Meaning
Used to introduce a surprising outcome or one that the hearer is not expected to try to guess.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Guess what, I just won a free trip.”
“Guess what, the boss finally gave us the day off tomorrow.”
“Guess what, the long-awaited results arrived this morning, and they exceeded all our expectations.”
Examples
simple
“Guess what, I just won a free trip.”
contextual
“Guess what, the boss finally gave us the day off tomorrow.”
complex
“Guess what, the long-awaited results arrived this morning, and they exceeded all our expectations.”
Origin
Perhaps an ellipsis of "(can you) guess what I am about to say/what happened next?"
Key words
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