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English phrases for telling news

16 phrases from the lesson “You'll Never Guess…”.

out of the bluesuddenly and unexpectedly
next thing I knewused to describe something sudden happening in a story
it turned outused to reveal how something eventually happened
to cut a long story shortused to summarize a story, skipping the details
funnily enoughused to introduce something slightly surprising or coincidental
in the endused to describe the final result of a situation
as it happensused to introduce a coincidence
all of a suddensuddenly, without warning
believe it or notused to introduce something surprising but true
guess whatused to introduce exciting or surprising news
little did I knowused to say you didn't realize something important at the time
much to my surpriseused to say something surprised you, often pleasantly
as luck would have itby chance, often in a fortunate way
against all oddsdespite there being very little chance of success
as it turned outused to reveal how a situation actually developed, often unexpectedly
before I knew itvery quickly, almost without realizing

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