英语词汇“a likely story”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

a likely story

Used to express disbelief of an account or excuse: ‘She’s your lodger? A likely story!’...

The Timaeus, however, presents itself not as serious cosmology but merely as a likely story, an example of the kind of account that Plato thinks is the right one to give; it is poetic and grandiose in style.
Craccum: rehashing news from the Dominion Post on the legal action, and ignoring a likely story about why the University of Auckland was the best in the country - research wise at least.
The gentleman told me his name was ‘John’, a likely story, I thought to myself and that it was his ‘sixth day at the gym’.

Synonyms

unlikely, implausible, unbelievable, incredible, untenable, unacceptable, inconceivable

See parent entry: likely

单词	a likely story
释义	a likely story Used to express disbelief of an account or excuse: ‘She’s your lodger? A likely story!’... The Timaeus, however, presents itself not as serious cosmology but merely as a likely story, an example of the kind of account that Plato thinks is the right one to give; it is poetic and grandiose in style. Craccum: rehashing news from the Dominion Post on the legal action, and ignoring a likely story about why the University of Auckland was the best in the country - research wise at least. The gentleman told me his name was ‘John’, a likely story, I thought to myself and that it was his ‘sixth day at the gym’. Synonyms unlikely, implausible, unbelievable, incredible, untenable, unacceptable, inconceivable See parent entry: likely
随便看	like a bat out of hell like a bear with a sore head likeability likeable likeableness like a blue-arsed fly likeably like a bride's nightie like a bull at a gate like a bull in a china shop like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks) like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights like a demon like a dog with two tails like a dose of salts like a dream like a drowned rat like a headless chicken like a (hot) knife through butter like a lamb to the slaughter like a leech like a man (or woman) possessed like a moth to the flame like anything like a rat up a drainpipe