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Alternative forms

• who'd'a' thought it
• who'd'a' thunk it
• who would have thought it
• who would have thunk it

Phrase

who'd have thunk it

1. (rhetorical question, colloquial, sometimes sarcastic, used to express incredulity) Who would have thought that would happen?; Who would have guessed it?
   • 1895, W. S. B. Mathews, Music, Volume 8, page 479:

     ... and then went home and wrote sonnets to his lady love. "Who'd have thunk it of 'im?

   • 1906, D. Appleton, Captain of the crew, page 147:

     "... He's twice the size he was when you got him!"
     "It's a way puppies have."
     "You don't say so? Who'd have thunk it? ..."

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