you don't say!
informalDefinition
› used either to express surprise or lack of surprise in a humorous and slightly unkind way: "He's lost his job." "You don't say!"Expressions of surprise
(Definition of you don't say! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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you can't win 'em all idiom
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(you can) depend on/upon it idiom
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you could cut the atmosphere with a knife idiom
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you could have heard a pin drop idiom
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you could have knocked me down/over with a feather idiom
- you don't say! idiom
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you got it idiom
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you have no idea idiom
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you know idiom
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you know something? idiom
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you live and learn idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- (really) take the biscuit idiom
- actually adverb (SURPRISE)
- believe verb
- bingo exclamation
- bless my soul! idiom
- blimey exclamation
- by gum! idiom
- deuce noun
- gracious exclamation
- how about that? idiom
- I ask you! idiom
- I declare idiom
- I'll be a monkey's uncle! idiom
- I'll be blowed! idiom
- of all people/things/places idiom
- omg
- shock, horror! idiom
- speak/talk of the devil idiom
- ye gods! idiom
- you could have knocked me down/over with a feather idiom
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Expressions of surprise
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