известное дело

• ИЗВЕСТНОЕ ДЕЛО highly coll

[NP; Invar; sent adv (parenth) or an indep. remark; more often this WO]

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⇒ (used to emphasize that what is stated contains nothing surprising) as could be expected:

- (quite) naturally;

- sure enough;

- sure thing;

- [in limited contexts] you know how it is;

- that's for sure.

     ♦ "Ослица эта, например, известная. "Валаам, Валаам, говорит... не ходи туда, сам пожалеешь". Ну, известное дело, он не послушал, пошёл" (Пастернак 1). "Take the famous she-ass, for instance. 'Balaam, Balaam,' she says, 'listen to me, don't go that way ..you'll be sorry.' Well, naturally, he wouldn't listen, he went on" (1a).

     ♦ "Заграница, - говорил Александр Семёнович, выкладывая яйца на деревянный стол, - разве это наши мужицкие яйца... Все, вероятно, брамапутры, чёрт их возьми! немецкие..." - "Известное дело", - подтверждал охранитель, любуясь яйцами (Булгаков 10). "That's Europe for you," said Alexander Semyonovich, laying out the eggs on the wooden table. "What did you expect-our measly little peasant eggs? They must be Brahmaputras, all of them, the devil take 'em! German." "Sure thing," echoed the guard, admiring the eggs (10a).

     ♦ "...Ехал [я] по грязи, в одном хуторе машину мою занесло, а тут корова подвернулась, я и сбил её с ног. Ну, известное дело, бабы крик подняли..." (Шолохов 1). "I was driving along a muddy road through a village and I went into a skid. There happened to be a cow in the way and I knocked it over. Well, you know how it is - the women raised a hullabaloo..." (lc).