(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.

Examples of (it's a) small world in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Luxury real estate, especially the highest of the high end where Oren and Tal worked, is a very small world, a kind of glamorous rats’ nest. —

Seyward Darby, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2024 Then there is the question of if someone in the apparently small world of potential buyers can afford it. —

Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2024 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. —

Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 July 2024 Swimming is a small world, and swimmers tend to stay swimmers for life. —

SELF, 11 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for (it's a) small world

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