Using “Fancy seeing you here”

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now

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it is important to note that this

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expression can be used with a sarcastic

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tone and then it can mean the exact

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opposite

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listen out compare

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fancy seeing you here

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fancy seeing you here

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so a friendly greeting would signal a

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genuine expression of surprise when you

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meet someone and that sarcastic tone is

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really to sort of humiliate or mock

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someone or suggest that you're actually

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not very excited to see them at all it's

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much more common to use it in the

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positive way and that is how you'll hear

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it in today's conversation as well

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listen out for the adjective promising

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if someone or something is promising it

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seems likely

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that it will be very good or very

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successful

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and it's often used with some of these

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verbs like look

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seem

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sounds and feel

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so a situation feels or seems promising

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an idea

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sounds promising and the result

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looks promising a blessing in disguise

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this is a very useful idiom to know

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if you say that something is a blessing

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in disguise