(it's a) small world
idiom
—used to show surprise when one meets someone one knows at an unexpected place or finds out that one shares a friend, acquaintance, etc., with another person
You know him, too? Wow, it's a small world.
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Two people who operate in the relatively small world of women's professional sports wearing the same Alice + Olivia floral blazer is nothing to bat an eye at.
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 July 2024
Swimming is a small world, and swimmers tend to stay swimmers for life.
—SELF, 11 June 2024
That is the whole of the premise, really, and almost the series’ sole setting, as, from 1922 to 1958, with large tracts of time skipped over, characters come into and out of the Count‘s small world — which, with its other rooms, and nooks and crannies, proves not such a small world after all.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Donning a sequin Minnie Mouse ear headband, her family’s day included their own visit to The Royal Hall to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder as well as rides on it’s a small world and King Arthur Carrousel.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2023
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 July 2024
Swimming is a small world, and swimmers tend to stay swimmers for life.
—SELF, 11 June 2024
That is the whole of the premise, really, and almost the series’ sole setting, as, from 1922 to 1958, with large tracts of time skipped over, characters come into and out of the Count‘s small world — which, with its other rooms, and nooks and crannies, proves not such a small world after all.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Donning a sequin Minnie Mouse ear headband, her family’s day included their own visit to The Royal Hall to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder as well as rides on it’s a small world and King Arthur Carrousel.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2023
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