you never know

English

Phrase

you never know

Used to speculate about a possibility; especially, a slight one.
At this point, I doubt that they'll meet their deadline, but you never know — stranger things have happened.
- 8 October 2010, Colin Jackson for BBC Sport, 'Magic can happen between Turner and Sharman'
  They are only running times in the 13.20s, but next year he could run 13.25 and you never know, he may end up running 13.1 quite easily

Related terms

Translations

phrase used to speculate about a slim chance

Finnish: ei sitä koskaan tiedä
French: sait-on jamais (fr), on ne sait jamais (fr)
German: man kann nie wissen, man weiß nie
Luxembourgish: et weess een ni
Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje godt å vita
Polish: nigdy nie wiadomo
Spanish: nunca se sabe, uno nunca sabe m, una nunca sabe f, quién quita

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