Meaning of turnip for the book | Babel Free

Definitions

A very unexpected surprise or occurrence.

humorous

Examples

“You've got these Swedes in your office—that was a turnip for the books. Do go on.”

“Swedes fired arrows into their corpses, though we don't know why. (This is better than corpses firing arrows into swedes which would be a real turnip for the book.)”

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