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单词 too good to be true
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Example sentences from the Web for too good to be true

  • But in a quick look at eBay one finds plenty of too-good-to-be-true art auctions.

    Why eBay Is an Art Forger’s Paradise|Lizzie Crocker|August 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
  • She had no reason to trust this stranger and his too-good-to-be-true offer.

    How An Israeli Stranger Helped An Ethiopian Girl Escape Prostitution|Itay Hod|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
  • As with all too-good-to-be-true mysteries, scientists have a simple explanation for this wall of wonder.

    294 Dinosaurs Once Walked on This Wall in Bolivia|Nina Strochlic|October 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST

too good to be true


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).

Words nearby too good to be true

too big for one's britches, too close for comfort, too close to call, toodle-oo, Tooele, too good to be true, took, Tooke, tool, toolbar, toolbox
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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