Meanings
- 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.
1 more example
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
Translations
Finnish ei sitä koskaan tiedä
- ei sitä koskaan tiedäphrase used to speculate about a slim chance
French sait-on jamais, on ne sait jamais
- sait-on jamaisphrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- on ne sait jamaisphrase used to speculate about a slim chance
German man kann nie wissen, man weiß nie
- man kann nie wissenphrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- man weiß niephrase used to speculate about a slim chance
Polish nigdy nie wiadomo
- nigdy nie wiadomophrase used to speculate about a slim chance
Portuguese nunca se sabe
- nunca se sabephrase used to speculate about a slim chance
Russian как знать, кто зна́ет
- как знать (kak znatʹ)phrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- кто зна́ет (kto znájet)phrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- чем чёрт не шу́тит (čem čort ne šútit)phrase used to speculate about a slim chance
Spanish nunca se sabe, uno nunca sabe
- nunca se sabephrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- uno nunca sabephrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- una nunca sabephrase used to speculate about a slim chance
- quién quitaphrase used to speculate about a slim chance
Cite this entry
you never know. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20never%20know
“you never know.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20never%20know. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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