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believe it or not
Idioms and Phrases
It's true, whether or not you agree, as in Believe it or not, I finally finished painting the house . Originating in the 1800s, this phrase gained currency as the title of a cartoon series begun in 1918 by Robert Ripley and continuing to run in American newspapers long after his death in 1949. Each drawing presented a strange but supposedly true phenomenon, such as a two-headed chicken.Example Sentences
His film was narrated, believe it or not, by Martin Sheen — yes, President West Wing, or whatever the hell his character was called — and in a number of alarming ways it was well ahead of its time.
"Our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913. You know why, it was all based, we had no income tax then in 1913 some genius came up with the idea of let's charge the people of our country not foreign countries."
Asked about that finding, Welby said: "You can believe it or not, I did not have a clue."
Actually, believe it or not, it does get cold here.
They not only screamed his name, they wore it, on the backs of souvenir T-shirts that were laid across every seat before the game, “77” everywhere, the usually too-cool Laker crowd donning the cotton from the lower bowl to the upper deck and, believe it or not, at least one courtside hipster even squeezed into the freebie.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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