Idiom
next thing one knows
Meaning
suddenly, out of the blue.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I blinked, and next thing I knew, the cat was gone.”
“We were just talking about the weather, and next thing I knew, he was asking me for a huge favor.”
“The argument began with a minor disagreement over dinner, yet next thing they knew, they were packing their bags and ending the relationship.”
Examples
simple
“I blinked, and next thing I knew, the cat was gone.”
contextual
“We were just talking about the weather, and next thing I knew, he was asking me for a huge favor.”
complex
“The argument began with a minor disagreement over dinner, yet next thing they knew, they were packing their bags and ending the relationship.”
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