too good to be true
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[edit]Phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) Appearing to be exceptionally good, and therefore arousing suspicion of illegitimacy.
- He wants to give you two million dollars? That's just too good to be true!
- 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “IRP snuffs out 'levelling up'”, in RAIL, number 945, page 3:
- Remember the old saying that if something looks too good to be true, then it almost certainly is?
Synonyms
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[edit]appearing to be exceptionally good, and therefore arousing suspicion of illegitimacy
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “too good to be true”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.