When I am joking about something told me, which is not correct, in Italian I often reply with Ora mi dirai che […] (literally, "now you will tell me that […]").
Is it correct to use now in a sentence using the future tense?
A: Roma is not the capital of Italy.
B: Now you will tell me Roma is not even in Italy.
Best Answer
I think it's often expressed with the word next, in place of the now, particularly when it's used to form an exasperated exclamation:
I did a Google books search which revealed several contemporary examples. When I performed a similar search using "now" in place of "next", there were several results returned, but most of them seemed to be in an interrogation setting, not the ironic utterances you point to. Here are a small handful of samples:
I'm not claiming that the word "now" couldn't be used in this way, but I think "next" might be a better choice.
There's also the idiomatic "Now you tell me," which is sometimes said when someone reveals some information too late: