Idiom
too good to be true
Meaning
Appearing to be exceptionally good, and therefore arousing suspicion of illegitimacy.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That offer sounds too good to be true.”
“The price for this luxury apartment is so low that it seems too good to be true.”
“While the investment opportunity promised extraordinary returns, the lack of transparency made me suspect it was simply too good to be true.”
Examples
simple
“That offer sounds too good to be true.”
contextual
“The price for this luxury apartment is so low that it seems too good to be true.”
complex
“While the investment opportunity promised extraordinary returns, the lack of transparency made me suspect it was simply too good to be true.”
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