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It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
Bruce Cockburn

Meaning of "strange to say" in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRANGE TO SAY

strandwolf
strandwolves
strange
strange attractor
strangely
strangeness
strangeness number
stranger
stranger danger
stranger´s gallery
strangle
strangled
stranglehold
stranglement
strangler
strangles
strangling
strangulate
strangulation
strangury

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRANGE TO SAY

assay
bioassay
daresay
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
essay
gainsay
hearsay
I dare say
immunoassay
Lindsay
Lyndsay
not to say
Pasay
Quai d´Orsay
radioimmunoassay
Ramsay
Rothesay
say
that is to say
unsay

Synonyms and antonyms of strange to say in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «strange to say» into 25 languages

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The translations of strange to say from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «strange to say» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

说来也怪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

por extraño que parezca
570 millions of speakers

English

strange to say
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कहने के लिए अजीब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

من الغريب القول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

странно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

estranho dizer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদ্ভুত বলতে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

étrange à dire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelik untuk mengatakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

seltsam zu sagen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

妙な話だが
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

말을 이상한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aneh ngomong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kỳ lạ để nói
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சொல்ல விசித்திரமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

म्हणायचे विचित्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Söylemek garip
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strano a dirsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dziwna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дивно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ciudat să spun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράξενο να πω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreemd om te sê
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

konstigt att säga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rart å si
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRANGE TO SAY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about strange to say

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3 QUOTES WITH «STRANGE TO SAY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word strange to say.
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Bruce Cockburn
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
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Bill Murray
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
3
Alexei Navalny
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRANGE TO SAY»

Discover the use of strange to say in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to strange to say and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nature of Value: Axiological Investigations
Although it does seem strange to say of a true proposition that it is good, it is not at all strange to say that it is good (or bad) that a given proposition is true (or false ). To say the latter, however, is not to say that the proposition itself is good (or ...
Ramon M. Lemos, 1995
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The strange death of Liberal England [1910-1914]
Important writing, strange to say, rarely gives the exact flavor of its period; if it is successful it presents you with the soul of man, undated. Very minor literature, on the other hand, is the Baedeker of the soul, and will guide you through the ...
George Dangerfield, 1935
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The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science ...
Strange to say, I had no difficulty at all in imagining myself as going upward on my stroll along the slope. I told myself that the building was behind and below me , and indeed it seemed real that it was that way. I walked some distance along the  ...
Miles John Breuer, Michael R. Page, 2008
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Bentley's miscellany
Now, strange to say, the Major had taken, we know not why, a mortal dislike to the lady next door, — albeit he had only seen her once or twice, and that in perspective, at the window, — but still he disliked her. Her name sounded of a ten years' ...
‎1838
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Bentley's Miscellany
Now, strange to say, the Major had taken, we know not why, a mortal dislike to the lady next door, — albeit he had only seen her once or twice, and that in perspective, at the window, — but still he disliked her. Her name sounded of a ten years' ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1838
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On Law and Reason
For example, it would be strange to say “A is liable for damage in question although no reasons support the conclusion that he is liable”. One may also consider the following example. Assume that a political leader, Adolf, thinks that killing ...
Aleksander Peczenik, 2008
7
The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon
To some people it will seem strange to say this; to some other people, it will seem strange to have to say it. Strange to say it, because the story is, as everyone now knows, about two young Wyoming ranch hands who fall in love as teenagers in ...
William R. Handley, 2011
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Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the Nature of Truth
It might be somewhat strange to say such things. But this is merely strange in the same way in which it is strange to say that the morning star rises in the evening. Obtaining states of affairs, provided they are represented by sentences, are ...
Marian Alexander David, 1994
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The Physical Basis of Predication
It would certainly sound strange to say that e itself was not red, but instead had some sort of “redmaking attribute” that enabled it to redden a particular. For particularism a “red-making attribute” would be some sort of trope and it would be a ...
Andrew Newman, 1992
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of ...
It seems strange to say of this colourless and ineffectual woman, but she was a true enthusiast, and might have made the sunshine and the glory of a cloister. Perhaps none but Archie knew she could be eloquent; perhaps none but he had  ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma Letley, 1998

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