He promised investors returns on their money that were too good to be true. |
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In fact, I have no alternative but to fine her a crisp crunchie for being just too good to be true. |
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Take five guys with no brains and a job that's too good to be true and you have the recipe for one of the funniest crime capers in recent years. |
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It sounded too good to be true, even as I handed over the six pounds for the front row seat. |
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Some stories are much too good to be true, tales so full of emotion and pathos that they compel a journalist to step back and reconsider. |
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I may be eligible for three of the licentiateships available under the City and Guilds criteria but it sounds too good to be true. |
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He is a mighty war hero whose features appear to be so perfect that it seems too good to be true. |
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It seems too good to be true but thus far we have seen no hidden problems or costs. |
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It's almost too good to be true and cynics may dismiss this fine album as mere easy listening but that would be wrong. |
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We often believe counterfeit items to be the real thing even if the prices are too good to be true. |
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And, in fact, that does seem unlikely unless the asking price is too good to be true, and then their shareholders might flip out. |
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Mutterings that it was all too good to be true started long before now and those who forewarned us can take a dubious comfort from these figures. |
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For a business and investment world starved of good news, this seems almost too good to be true. |
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That would be too good to be true, especially since it normally doesn't cost anything, as the oil is thrown away. |
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Even if you believe in giants, the story of Goliath was probably too good to be true. |
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The idea that chocolate could be health food seems too good to be true. |
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Marcus is obviously too good to be true from the moment he wafts on to the set of Donna's York-based fictional soap Westfield, Irish wolfhound Murphy in tow. |
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As some other people have been unreticent about saying, it's suspiciously good news and Edward is too good to be true. |
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Always be on your guard and remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! |
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If an investment scheme sounds too good to be true, it probably is not genuine. |
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It sounds too good to be true but this is the tempting prize on offer. |
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It may be a cliche, but if something seems to be too good to be true, it usually is. |
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It was all as pretty as a picture and just a little too good to be true. |
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It sounds almost too good to be true, which explains why his observation has stuck in my mind. |
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For GOP talkers and apparatchiks, Franken's resume is almost too good to be true. |
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It would have been very easy for Neel's character to have become too good to be true, but that is never a danger with Kusturica's earnest, uncontrived playing of him. |
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He brings little passion to the part, preferring instead to present Andre as a low-key, open-faced friend of the people who's almost too good to be true. |
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The host family is usually too good to be true, and so are the working conditions. |
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This seems too good to be true in the current practice of courts and tribunals. |
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These E-commerce Web sites will try to sell you something and the offer will seem too good to be true. |
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Walk away, hang up, delete or shred an offer that sounds too good to be true. |
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If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is, especially in the online world. |
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Walk away from offers that seem too good to be true, because they usually are. |
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When an offer sounds too good to be true, think twice before making your final decision. |
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Ed Bolden is hardly a snake oil salesman, but you can't blame anyone who thinks he's selling something that seems too good to be true. |
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It seemed almost too good to be true that morphologists working on tarantulas hadn't already described this. |
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I have never liked kids' books that feature heroes and heroines who are sappily too good to be true. |
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They ultimately come up against those other athletes, athletes whose performance seems just too good to be true, athletes who got their level in sport by not only working hard, but with a little something extra. |
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One example was an asset-building project for single mothers that matched their savings over 12 months on a three-to-one basis, a project that some potential participants thought was too good to be true. |
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Add to that faster acquisition of the tools needed to get a business going, earlier market entry, higher returns on investment and a carbon clear conscience and it all sounds too good to be true. |
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Could this Italian doctor be onto something, or is it too good to be true? |
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In the same way, normally conservative but naive banks have been tempted by the enhanced interest rates paid by these supposedly high-rated instruments to go for what has obviously turned out to be too good to be true. |
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Be cautious about offers that are too good to be true! |
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A good rule of thumb is: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. |
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All this may sound too good to be true judging from the stalemates found in multilateral disarmament efforts and the hurdles of the not-so-long-ago Cold War. |
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The restaurant's spin on fried chicken and waffles sounds too good to be true, and, one recent rainy sparsely populated night, it was, with a spongy, wheaty waffle and sweet, slightly greasy chicken. |
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If cheap land for all sounded too good to be true for many who were emigrating for Canada, they quickly learned the physical price of landownership: the back-breaking labour required to clear the land for cultivation. |
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It is a nice example of wishful thinking, but it is too good to be true. |
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That way, you can rebuff, high-pressure sales tactics, come-ons and deals that are too good to be true. |
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Their gun control proposals sound too good to be true and they are. |
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Wouter Bos seems too good to be true. He's smart, relaxed and impossibly telegenic, with a knack for coming across as humble and sincere. |
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Beware of home business opportunities that seem too good to be true! |
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And when Charlene arrived on the scene it was almost too good to be true. |
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This was almost too good to be true, but then, true to form, the officious centralisers in the Commission made it impossible to read the programme. |
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Fabrics from tweeds to jacquards, and even metallic woven designs, are used to create these expensive looking coats, and some of the prices seem just too good to be true. |
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