"you never know" meaning in English

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Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} you never know
  1. Used to speculate about a possibility; especially, a slight one. Related terms: what do you know, who knows Translations (phrase used to speculate about a slim chance): ei sitä koskaan tiedä (Finnish), sait-on jamais (French), on ne sait jamais (French), man kann nie wissen (German), man weiß nie (German), et weess een ni (Luxembourgish), ikkje godt å vita (Norwegian Nynorsk), nigdy nie wiadomo (Polish), как знать (kak znatʹ) (Russian), кто зна́ет (kto znájet) (Russian), чем чёрт не шу́тит (čem čort ne šútit) (Russian), nunca se sabe (Spanish), uno nunca sabe [masculine] (Spanish), una nunca sabe [feminine] (Spanish), quién quita (Spanish)
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          "text": "8 October 2010, Colin Jackson for BBC Sport, 'Magic can happen between Turner and Sharman'\nThey are only running times in the 13.20s, but next year he could run 13.25 and you never know, he may end up running 13.1 quite easily"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "ei sitä koskaan tiedä"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "sait-on jamais"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "on ne sait jamais"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "man kann nie wissen"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "man weiß nie"
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          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "et weess een ni"
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          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "ikkje godt å vita"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "nigdy nie wiadomo"
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          "roman": "kak znatʹ",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
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          "roman": "kto znájet",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "кто зна́ет"
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          "roman": "čem čort ne šútit",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "чем чёрт не шу́тит"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
          "word": "nunca se sabe"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
      "word": "ei sitä koskaan tiedä"
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      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
      "word": "sait-on jamais"
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      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
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      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
      "word": "man kann nie wissen"
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      "word": "man weiß nie"
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      "word": "et weess een ni"
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      "word": "кто зна́ет"
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      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
      "word": "чем чёрт не шу́тит"
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      "sense": "phrase used to speculate about a slim chance",
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