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strangely enough

in a way that is unusual or surprising His mother, strangely enough, seemed to be happy that he got arrested.

See also: enough, strangely

strange to say

Also, strangely enough. Surprisingly, curiously, unaccountably, as in Strange to say, all the boys in his class are six feet tall or taller, or I've never been to the circus, strangely enough. This idiom was first recorded in 1697 as strange to relate.

See also: say, strange