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- phrase idiomatic (often preceded by well) expressing complete
surprise ordisbelief
Etymologies
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"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.
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