(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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Horse racing is a fairly small world, and, between Del Mar and Santa Anita, McCarthy and Wellman ran into one another enough to become friendly, even as their careers wound forward in seemingly divergent directions.
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Dana O'Neil, New York Times, 1 May 2025
As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Violette is at the heart of this small world, populated by the local gravediggers and a young priest as well as the many visitors, who stop by her lodge and confide in her about their lives and lost ones.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
That subdivision, by a small world coincidence, was developed by real estate executive Don Hovde — father of 2024 GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde and Thompson's friend.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
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Dana O'Neil, New York Times, 1 May 2025
As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Violette is at the heart of this small world, populated by the local gravediggers and a young priest as well as the many visitors, who stop by her lodge and confide in her about their lives and lost ones.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
That subdivision, by a small world coincidence, was developed by real estate executive Don Hovde — father of 2024 GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde and Thompson's friend.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
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“(it's a) small world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28it%27s%20a%29%20small%20world. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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