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too good to be true
Idioms and Phrases
So excellent that it defies belief, as in She loves all her in-laws? That's too good to be true . This term expresses the skeptical view that something so seemingly fine must have something wrong with it. The term was part of the title of Thomas Lupton's Sivquila; Too Good to be True (1580).Example Sentences
“Phones go off. A client may be hospitalized or in jail. Clients might be mistrustful of getting this call out of the blue that sounds a little too good to be true. Voicemails go unresponded to.”
Isn't this too good to be true?
Still, the offer might be too good to be true.
Advocates and federal workers’ unions say the buyout offer is too good to be true.
“If it seems too good to be true, it probably is,” said Todd Smoyer, who received a voucher after his house burned down in Altadena but wasn’t able to use it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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