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11 Jul 2023, 9:43 pm

Does anyone know what the opposite of "too good to be true" is?



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11 Jul 2023, 11:02 pm

Murphy's law?



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12 Jul 2023, 12:09 am

mharrington85 wrote:
Does anyone know what the opposite of "too good to be true" is?
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12 Jul 2023, 12:10 am

Too good to be false?
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12 Jul 2023, 12:43 am

"It's parr for the course".



That would be the closest thing to the mirror image of "it's too good to be true".

It means "it sucks, but it's in character for the person/thing/situation you're talking about". That would be the mirror image of TGTBT which means "its sounds so good that it must be a scam".



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12 Jul 2023, 7:00 am

Too bad to believe?


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12 Jul 2023, 7:40 am

naturalplastic wrote:
"It's parr for the course".



That would be the closest thing to the mirror image of "it's too good to be true".

It means "it sucks, but it's in character for the person/thing/situation you're talking about". That would be the mirror image of TGTBT which means "its sounds so good that it must be a scam".


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12 Jul 2023, 7:50 am

Why are you asking?

An "opposite" would have to be an (a) an actual extant expression that is frequently used- in order to be in the same category as "TGTBT" . No one ever says "its too bad to be true". And(b) it has to apply to real life in some way that mirrors "TGTBT".

If you are offered something thats seems to good to be true then...you have to beware that it may well be ...just that...not true.

So the opposite situation would be if you experience something bad...but hey...its something that you gotta expect.

So opposite expressions would be stuff that describes such situations, like "Its parr for the course", "them's the breaks", "thats life", and "s**t happens".



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12 Jul 2023, 9:34 pm

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Why are you asking?

An "opposite" would have to be an (a) an actual extant expression that is frequently used- in order to be in the same category as "TGTBT" . No one ever says "its too bad to be true". And(b) it has to apply to real life in some way that mirrors "TGTBT".

If you are offered something thats seems to good to be true then...you have to beware that it may well be ...just that...not true.

So the opposite situation would be if you experience something bad...but hey...its something that you gotta expect.

So opposite expressions would be stuff that describes such situations, like "Its parr for the course", "them's the breaks", "thats life", and "s**t happens".


"Too good to be true" means that you're suspicious because it seems better than you expect. I wanted to know if there was something where you're suspicious precisely because it's worse than you expect.



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12 Jul 2023, 9:52 pm

mharrington85 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Why are you asking?

An "opposite" would have to be an (a) an actual extant expression that is frequently used- in order to be in the same category as "TGTBT" . No one ever says "its too bad to be true". And(b) it has to apply to real life in some way that mirrors "TGTBT".

If you are offered something thats seems to good to be true then...you have to beware that it may well be ...just that...not true.

So the opposite situation would be if you experience something bad...but hey...its something that you gotta expect.

So opposite expressions would be stuff that describes such situations, like "Its parr for the course", "them's the breaks", "thats life", and "s**t happens".


"Too good to be true" means that you're suspicious because it seems better than you expect. I wanted to know if there was something where you're suspicious precisely because it's worse than you expect.

I dont know of any such common expression.



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12 Jul 2023, 9:54 pm

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Murphy's law?


I was going to say that earlier.


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12 Jul 2023, 10:06 pm

mharrington85 wrote:
I wanted to know if there was something where you're suspicious precisely because it's worse than you expect.


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12 Jul 2023, 10:19 pm

Well...that Jason mask in the advert had "too much quality to be true" (ie too good to be true).

Hitler invented the label for (though not the practice of using)"the big lie". He observed how if you tell folks small lies they wont believe you, but they will believe you if you tell a massive whopper...because the listeners will reason that no one would have the gall to make up something that outlandish so it must be true.

Like telling crowds that the "Jews are behind everything bad- including Germany's defeat in the last war" and like that. or "Joe Biden stole the election" and like that.

And said "big lies" are about imagined bad things having happened ...in order to instill fear in an electorate. So "the big lie" might be an example of something "being too bad to be true".



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12 Jul 2023, 10:49 pm

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12 Jul 2023, 10:58 pm

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13 Jul 2023, 4:17 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:
All that glisters is not gold.


Thats not the opposite. Thats kinda the same thing as TGTBT.

Many old adages have an exact opposite old adage. Like "he who hesitates is lost", and "look before you leap". :lol:

But "too good to be true" doesnt seem to have an opposite equivalent.