Lo is short for look. Look! Behold!
To me, it sounds like a sailing term. But apparently it showed up first “in an 1808 letter in the Correspondence 1787–1870, of Queen Victoria’s lady of the bedchamber – Lady Sarah Spencer Lyttelton:
‘”Hartington… had just told us how hard he had worked all the morning… when, lo and behold! M. Deshayes himself appeared.’”
Well, lo and behold! I did not know that.
~Today, I found a spider in my bed and I squeaked. The spider promptly responded, “Oops, wrong bed”.
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