believe it or not
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Étymologie[modifier le wikicode]
Locution adverbiale [modifier le wikicode]
believe it or not
- Croyez-le ou non, que vous le croyiez ou non, même si vous ne le croyez pas.
- That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: … — (Bryan A. Garner, Legal writing in plain English: a text with exercises, p. 108, 2001)
- One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays. — (Robert Bruce Thompson et Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC hardware in a nutshell, p. 230, 2003)
- The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: … — (David Brown, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music, p. 165, 2007)
Synonymes[modifier le wikicode]
- believe or not (Moins courant)
Prononciation[modifier le wikicode]
- \bəˈliv ɪt ɔɹ ˌnɑt\ (États-Unis)
- \bəˈliːv ɪt ɔə ˌnɒt\ (Royaume-Uni)