Akademik

• ГДЕ <РАЗВЕ> ЭТО СЛЫХАНО? coll

[indep. clause; these forms only; usu. foll. by infin or a чтобы-clause; fixed WO]

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⇒ (used to express indignation over or a strongly negative attitude toward some action or occurrence) this is unacceptable, unreasonable, outrageous:

- whoever ( who's ever) heard of such a thing (of anything like it)?;

- it's (simply) unheard of.

     ♦ "Как?! - удивились чегемцы, - ты никогда не видел человека, а сам разговариваешь с нами, да еще на нашем абхазском языке? Разве это слыхано?" (Искандер 5). "What!" the Chegemians marveled. "You've never seen a person, but you're talking to us, and in our Abkhazian language at that? Who ever heard of such a thing?" (5a).