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Etymology
From you ain't heard nothing yet, a phrase originally popularized by Al Jolson.
Meanings
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(colloquial) There's more where that came from; what you have seen so far is only the beginning. Used to inform the listener that they should expect further surprises, and that the speaker has only just begun doing something.
Sam Montgomery (Hilary Duff): Rhonda, you sure do have a knack for taking something simple and making it beautiful. / Rhonda (Regina King): Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
2004, Leigh Dunlap, 0:30:29 from the start, in A Cinderella Story:
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(colloquial) You haven't seen everything yet
"Ain't it a great show?" said the man. " / "'Tain't so great as 'twas last year in the Garden," she answered. / "Yes, 'tis, too, greater," he contended; "it’s a heap higher. We’ve just come in on the main floor. Why, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This show is in stories—begins on the ground floor, where we are now, and rises up like the Washington monument."
1897 February 14, “At the Bicycle Show: A look about with the enthusiasts and the cynic”, in The Sun (New York City), page 27: