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how would you explain "He is too good to be true"?
Her boyfriend is sweet. She loves him. He loves her. He carries her books. He sharpens her pencils. He helps her do her homework. He takes her to dinner. He takes her to the movies. He gives presents to her. He writes love letters to her. He is too good to be true!
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It means the current situation with her boyfriend, it's almost at the point of not being believable and it will soon fall apart.
There's an expression called "If it's too good to be true, it is." In other words, be careful of things that seem so great, they can't possibly be so good!
There's an expression called "If it's too good to be true, it is." In other words, be careful of things that seem so great, they can't possibly be so good!
It means the young man is way beyond the girl's imagination of how a boyfriend could be. He is TOO good -- too good to be true (real).
The sentence usually should carry a positive meaning, but it can also be used to mean something negative.
The sentence usually should carry a positive meaning, but it can also be used to mean something negative.
While it is difficult to say what someone else means by a statement like this that can be taken in a number of different ways, it's very similar to another expression: "If something seems to good to be true, it probably is." In that case, the meaning is that if something is such a good deal that it seems unbelievable, it probably is not true. Here, the meaning is similar: There must be some hidden problem with a boyfriend that seems so perfect. There is a problem that we can't see.
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