YOU NEVER CAN TELL Definition & Meaning

you never can tell

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, you never know . Perhaps, possibly, one can't be certain, as in You never can tell, it might turn into a beautiful day , or You may yet win the lottery—you never know . The first term uses tell in the sense of “discern,” a usage dating from the late 1300s; the variant dates from the mid-1800s.

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When they get up and start dancing to Chuck Berry’s You Never Can Tell, the scene homages Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 French New Wave classic Bande à Part – the poster of which is behind the director during the BBC interview – where characters spontaneously dance in a café.

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Even better, he wrote some of his biggest hits behind bars, including “Nadine,” “No Particular Place to Go” and “You Never Can Tell.”

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He does not seem inclined to, but you never can tell.

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“I could have told them, we had an actor in the White House and it worked out very well — when Ronald Reagan was president. You never can tell about these showbiz people.”

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You never can tell if the prettiest things are going to be practical, or if a geared and wired creation also passes the experts' taste test.

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