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for a wonder
Idioms and Phrases
Surprisingly, strange to say, as in For a wonder he didn't argue with the waiter about the bill . [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
Others described being charged exorbitant prices for the cheap medication or watching family membersâ conditions worsen while waiting for a âwonder drugâ they found online, according to Time.
âFor a Wonder Bread fan like me, is there somewhere that I can get a sourdough ender?â
In the 1970s it was snapped up by Shams Pahlavi, the shahâs sister, who had ambitions for a wonder estate to rival her Pearl Palace in Karaj, outside Tehran, with its spiral ziggurat and zoo and fabulously opulent pure gold bedspread.
In 2008, Wonder Woman writer Greg Rucka wrote an irate blog post excoriating Playboy for a Wonder Woman cover shoot which he suggested would harm Hillary Clintonâs chance for victory in the Democratic primary.
The timing couldnât be better for a Wonder Woman sequel.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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