"what do you know" meaning in English

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Phrase

Audio: En-au-what do you know.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} what do you know
  1. (colloquial, set phrase, rhetorical question, often sarcastic) What a surprise; guess what. Tags: colloquial, often, rhetoric, sarcastic Categories (topical): English rhetorical questions Related terms: who would have thunk it Translations (what a surprise): etskae (Estonian), kappas kummaa (Finnish), mikä yllätys (Finnish), devine quoi (French), a que non sabes? (Galician), sabes que? (Galician), ჰოი საოცრებავ (hoi saocrebav) (Georgian), Wer hätte das gedacht? (German), no proszę! (Polish), olha só (Portuguese), ce să vezi (Romanian), ну надо же (nu nado že) (Russian), ser man på (Swedish), ai dè (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-what_do_you_know-en-phrase-4yOcZzzm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of 'what a surprise': 96 4
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, do, you, know.
    Sense id: en-what_do_you_know-en-phrase-j~7pBD1j

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      "sense": "what a surprise",
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      "sense": "what a surprise",
      "word": "ну надо же"
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