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wouldn't you know

idiom

Alternative form of wouldn't you know it.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    as you know

    as it is already known.

  2. 02

    butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth

    The identified person appears to be benign, mild-mannered, or calm (but with an integral suggestion that, to the contrary, they really are untrustworthy, disagreeable, or mean-spirited).

  3. 03

    fuck if I know

    I have no idea whatsoever

  4. 04

    hell if I know

    Synonym of I don't know.

  5. 05

    I don't know about that

    I am not sure that I agree; expressing doubt or skepticism.

  6. 06

    I hardly know her

    A joking retort that draws attention to the possibility of sexual innuendo when a word ends with a schwar.

  7. 07

    it takes one to know one

    Expressing the same underlying character-judgment themes as pot calling the kettle black or set a thief to catch a thief.

  8. 08

    know beans about

    To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.

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