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).

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“I thought it was too good to be true, but I took a chance,” said one, Melanie Habon, whose immigrant parents from the Philippines encouraged her to become a structural engineer.

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“Adults” feels almost too good to be true.

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“And if it feels too good to be true, that’s because it is. Sooner or later, you’ve got to pay the piper.”

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Getting Luka Doncic from Dallas seemed too good to be true.

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“Phones go off. A client may be hospitalized or in jail. Clients might be mistrustful of getting this call out of the blue that sounds a little too good to be true. Voicemails go unresponded to.”

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Tooele have one's cake and eat it, too

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