I'll be a monkey's uncle
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
"I'll be a monkey's uncle" dates from after 1926, the date of the widely publicized Scopes Trial in the United States, where the term first appears. It appears in print starting in the 1930s.
[edit] Phrase
- (idiomatic) (often preceded by well) expressing complete surprise or disbelief
- Well I’ll be a monkey's uncle! I would never have thought that tourists would go into space!
[edit] Synonyms
- Fuck me running! (taboo slang)
- blimey! (UK)
- bloody hell! (coarse UK slang)
- bugger me! (taboo UK slang)
- Christ!, Christ almighty!
- crikey!, (Australian slang)
- damn!
- fancy that!
- fucking hell! (taboo slang)
- fuck me! (taboo slang)
- get out of town!
- God!
- good God!
- good gracious!
- goodness me!
- I'll be!
- I'll be damned!
- I'll be dipped in shit!
- Jesus!, Jesus Christ!
- my God!
- my goodness!
- stone me!
- stone the crows!
- strike me pink!
- what do you know!
- you don’t say?
- great Scott!
- get outta town!
