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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
But in a quick look at eBay one finds plenty of too-good-to-be-true art auctions.
She had no reason to trust this stranger and his too-good-to-be-true offer.
As with all too-good-to-be-true mysteries, scientists have a simple explanation for this wall of wonder.
Indeed, hydropower from Canada offers Americans an almost too-good-to-be-true source of energy.
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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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