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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
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.
Believe it or not, I was pretty good at realising that, where I was in the pecking order, and how to adapt my game.
"I said, 'believe it or not, I've never done it before'. That's not my game, you'll never see that again."
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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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