no kidding

(spoken)

really or honestly No kidding, there must have been at least twenty thousand people at the festival.

Truly, seriously, as in No kidding, I really did lose my wallet. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]

1. Used to express surprise or disbelief.

2. Used to express scornful acknowledgment of the obvious.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Desiderius	-	Late Roman
Eileen	['aili:n]
Visvaldis	-	Latvian
Valentine (1)	VAL-ən-tien	English
Ike	[aik]
Yekaterina	ye-kah-tye-REE-nah, ee-kah-tee-REE-nah	Russian