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of all people

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used to show that you are especially surprised at a particular person's behaviour because it does not seem typical of them
I thought that you, of all people, would believe me!

(Definition of of all people from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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