mirabile dictu

[LATIN, INTERJECTION] Wonderful to relate.

Will the little trains or will Winston Niles Rumfoord chuffa-chuffa-chuffa into view again? Oh, mirabile dictu! … they will!”

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Definition from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition (via Wordnik)

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