不出所料

bùchū-suǒliào

idiom #25,056

Meanings

HSK 4

不出所料，他们赢得了比赛。

Bùchū-suǒliào, tāmen yíngdé le bǐsài.

As expected, they won the match.

HSK 5

不出所料，天气预报说会下雨，果然下了。

Bùchū-suǒliào, tiānqì yùbào shuō huì xiàyǔ, guǒrán xià le.

Just as predicted, the weather forecast said it would rain, and it did.

usage

Often used at the start of a sentence to indicate the outcome matched the speaker's earlier prediction. Similar to 果不其然 (as one would expect).

不 bù

出 chū

所 suǒ

料 liào