"believe it or not" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [Anglais]

IPA: \bəˈliv ɪt ɔɹ ˌnɑt\, \bəˈliːv ɪt ɔə ˌnɒt\
  1. Croyez-le ou non, que vous le croyiez ou non, même si vous ne le croyez pas.
    Sense id: fr-believe_it_or_not-en-adv-tuNpa7Ar Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: believe or not
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    "Composé de believe « croyez », it « le », or « ou » et not « non »."
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          "ref": "Bryan A. Garner, Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises, p. 108, 2001",
          "text": "That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: …"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Robert Bruce Thompson et Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC hardware in a nutshell, p. 230, 2003",
          "text": "One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays."
        },
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          "ref": "David Brown, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music, p. 165, 2007",
          "text": "The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: …"
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        "Croyez-le ou non, que vous le croyiez ou non, même si vous ne le croyez pas."
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        "Moins courant"
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