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Idiom

I never did

Meaning

An exclamation of great surprise.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I never did! You actually won the lottery?”

“When she told me she was moving to another country tomorrow, I could only say, I never did!”

“Upon hearing that the quiet librarian had secretly written a bestselling novel, I exclaimed, I never did!”

Examples

simple

“I never did! You actually won the lottery?”

contextual

“When she told me she was moving to another country tomorrow, I could only say, I never did!”

complex

“Upon hearing that the quiet librarian had secretly written a bestselling novel, I exclaimed, I never did!”

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