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lo and behold |
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lo and behold (humorous) something that you say when you tell someone about something surprising that happened. I went into a bar just next to our hotel and, lo and behold, who should I see sitting there but Jim Gibson. lo and behold look or what a surprise. Carine tried her luck at the lottery and, lo and behold, won $1,500 last month. Usage notes: used as an exclamation: Lo and behold! You did come after all! |
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Here I go over to Se- reny Harper, like an old softy, expecting I'm going to make her believe all that rubbage about that dream, when lo and behold you she'd found out from Joe that you was over here and heard all the talk we had that night. I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks. So he broke into the 'Tivity Hymm, just as at Christmas carol-singing; when, lo and behold, down went the bull on his bended knees, in his ignorance, just as if |
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lo and behold