too good to be true Idiom

too good to be true

Idiom(s): too good to be true

Theme: TRUTH

almost unbelievable; so good as to be unbelievable.
• The news was too good to be true.
• When I finally got a big raise, it was too good to be true.

too acceptable to be true

So agitative or adorable as to be unbelievable. The allurement amount for that abode was absolutely too acceptable to be true—the coffer fabricated a aberration back they listed it. I had to ask them to echo their bacon action because it aloof seemed too acceptable to be true!Learn more: good, true

*too acceptable to be true

almost unbelievable; so acceptable as to be unbelievable. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; get~.) The account was too acceptable to be true. When I assuredly got a big raise, it was too acceptable to be true.Learn more: good, true

too acceptable to be true

So accomplished that it defies belief, as in She loves all her in-laws? That's too acceptable to be true. This appellation expresses the agnostic appearance that article so acutely accomplished charge accept article amiss with it. The appellation was allotment of the appellation of Thomas Lupton's Sivquila; Too Acceptable to be True (1580). Learn more: good, true

too ˌgood to be ˈtrue

acclimated to say that you cannot accept that article is as acceptable as it seems: ‘I’m abashed you were quoted the amiss price.’ ‘I anticipation it was too acceptable to be true.’Learn more: good, true

too acceptable to be true

Exaggeratedly optimistic; appearing so admirable that article charge be amiss with it. This alert appearance is assuredly alike earlier than its aboriginal announcement in English, in the sixteenth century. Nevertheless, it has been again in the aforementioned anatomy anytime since, with alone such slight variations as Mark Twain’s, “It’s too acceptable for true, honey, it’s too acceptable for true” (Huckleberry Finn, 1884). Shaw played on the announcement in the appellation of his 1932 comedy Too Accurate to Be Good. Learn added too abundant of a acceptable thing.Learn more: good, true

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toss one's hat into the ring toss one's cookies top sth off top sb/sth top off with toot one's own horn too much of a good thing Too many cooks spoil the stew too good to be true too close for comfort too big for one's britches tongue-in-cheek tone sth down toing and froing toe the mark to whom it may concern To the victors belong the spoils

too good to be true Idiom