YOU SAID:

I was expecting it to be a beautiful butterfly, but the teacher told me it was a distgusting moth!

INTO JAPANESE

どうせ駄作だろうと思っていたのだけど、どっこいなかなかいい本だった。

BACK INTO ENGLISH

I was expecting it to be a bad book, but damn me if it wasn't quite good after all.

INTO JAPANESE

どうせ駄作だろうと思っていたのだけど、どっこいなかなかいい本だった。

BACK INTO ENGLISH

I was expecting it to be a bad book, but damn me if it wasn't quite good after all.