Idiom
I'll be bound
Meaning
An expression of surprise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I'll be bound, you actually finished the work on time.”
“I'll be bound, I never expected to see you at this conference after all these years.”
“When the long-lost letter finally arrived in the morning post, he exclaimed, I'll be bound, it is exactly as she described.”
Examples
simple
“I'll be bound, you actually finished the work on time.”
contextual
“I'll be bound, I never expected to see you at this conference after all these years.”
complex
“When the long-lost letter finally arrived in the morning post, he exclaimed, I'll be bound, it is exactly as she described.”
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