Look - Dame receiving credit and influence? On the contrary (2,3,6)
I believe the answer is:
lo and behold
'look' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'dame receiving credit and influence? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
'dame' becomes 'DBE' (Dame of the British Empire).
'receiving' indicates putting letters inside (I've seen this in other clues).
'credit' becomes 'loan' (I've seen this before).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'influence? on the contrary' becomes 'hold' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'loan'+'hold'='loanhold'
'dbe' going inside 'loanhold' is 'LO AND BEHOLD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lo and behold that I've seen before include "This is new!" , "what a wonderful thing" .)