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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