I'll be a monkey's uncle

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Frasa

(ungkapan) Selalu didahului oleh well: menyatakan benar-benar rasa terkejut atau tidak percaya.; biar betul, tidak percaya/sangka.
Sinonim: Tesaurus:wow

Well I’ll be a monkey's uncle! I would never have thought that tourists would go into space!
Jadi biar betul! Saya tidak sangka pelancong akan pergi ke angkasa!
- 1943, Field and Stream, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:
  "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Lem said. "I've heerd of rifles with transits on 'em, but I ain't ever seen one. Mind if I look at her?"
  (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)
- 1970 February, Tech Engineering News, Cambridge, Mass.: Board of Directors of Tech Engineering News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35, column 3:
  Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I actually solved that one.
  Jadi, tidak percaya, saya sebenarnya selesaikan yang itu.
- 1987, Sholem Aleichem [pseudonym; Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich], “[The Railway Stories] The Happiest Man in All Kodny”, in Hillel Halkin, transl., Tevye the Dairyman and The Railway Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, [2008?], →ISBN, page 149:
  [...] I made as if to step inside—wham, bang, I'll be a monkey's uncle if he didn't slam the door in my face! What was I supposed to do now? It wasn't exactly a cheerful situation.
  (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)
- 2002, Steve Morrill, Michael Saldivar, Dan LaReaux, Michael LaReaux, “The Three Authors’ Tale II”, in The Three Authors’ Tales, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:
  But I know I am better than that. I completed two and a half years at the M.J.C., and I'll be a monkey's uncle if I did it all just to be neglected in some backwoods, drafty, lo-tech, no-glory, never-been-remembered-for-all-the-great-things-I-do, dead end court wizard position.
  (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)
- 2008, Carla Hester, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Penelope Plum (Penelope Plum Mysteries), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 46:
  Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle if it isn't my old pal, Captain Pete. I haven't seen you in years. Good to see you!
  (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)
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Etimologi

Asal usul tidak pasti; kata monkey’s uncle (pak cik monyet) muncul dalam karya abad ke-19 dan mungkin secara tidak langsung menyentuh idea awal tentang apa yang kini dipanggil teori evolusi.^[1] Kata ini mungkin kemudian meluasnya penggunaan selepas Scopes Trial 1925 yang diterbit meluas di Tennessee, Amerika Syarikat, di mana guru sekolah menengah didapati bersalah melanggar undang-undang mengharamkan mengajar evolusi manusia di sekolah biayaan kerajaan.

Sebutan

(Received Pronunciation) AFA^(kekunci): /ˈaɪl biː ə ˈmʌŋkiz ˌʌŋkəl/, /ɑːl-/
(General American) AFA^(kekunci): /ˈɑːl bi ə ˈmʌŋkiz ˌʌŋkəl/
Audio (AU): (file)
Penyempangan: I'll be a mon‧key's un‧cle

Rujukan

↑ Templat:R:World Wide Words, quoting “Lyceum Theatre”, dalam The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, 31 January 1847, OCLC 612268908, halaman 5: “The piece [a play called The Wigwam] was successful, as much from the rich, racy character of the acting, as from the humour of its situations and the liveliness of its incidents. [...] Mr. Oxberry was a veritable monkey's uncle, in his rage and jealousy; [...]”; the newspaper article also notes that the character of Mingo, played by Oxberry, is “known as the ‘Monkey’s Uncle,’ from his habit of ‘sucking the monkey.’”

Bacaan lanjut

monkey's uncle pada Wikipedia .Wikipedia:monkey's uncle
“I'll be (also I am) a monkey's uncle, phrase.” di bawah “monkey, n.”, dalam OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2002

[1] Templat:R:World Wide Words, quoting “Lyceum Theatre”, dalam The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, 31 January 1847, OCLC 612268908, halaman 5: “The piece [a play called The Wigwam] was successful, as much from the rich, racy character of the acting, as from the humour of its situations and the liveliness of its incidents. [...] Mr. Oxberry was a veritable monkey's uncle, in his rage and jealousy; [...]”; the newspaper article also notes that the character of Mingo, played by Oxberry, is “known as the ‘Monkey’s Uncle,’ from his habit of ‘sucking the monkey.’”

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