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Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2010It turned out to be too simple to be true.
Hi all, I've some difficulty in understanding the following sentence: It turned out to be too simple to be true. Any hints will be highly appreciated. BR.  Signature.: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :. > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > BR. It appeared very simple at first, but was really very complicated. Saying that it was 'simple' was not true. There's a very similar expression - 'too good to be true' - that is sometimes used when the price for something seems to be very good - but when you check into it, you find that a lot of necessary parts aren't included in the price. The original, cheap price is not the true price and is, in fact, too good to be true. SignatureCheryl > > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > -- > Cheryl Not just about prices; any favourable outcome of which you have cause to be dubious. "I heard they might let us go home early due to the train strikes". "Yeah - IF we make up the time next week". "Oh, I knew it sounded too good to be true". It's a bit like my favourite stock phrase from cinema - "I don't like it, it's too quiet...". Mark >>> Hi all, >>> I've some difficulty in understanding the following sentence: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > "Yeah - IF we make up the time next week". > "Oh, I knew it sounded too good to be true". That phrase made its way into the New English Bible in 1961. Lk. xxiv. 41: "They were still unconvinced, still wondering, for it seemed too good to be true." In the King James version it reads: "And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered." Sometimes the thing *is* true, however incredible it may seem. SignatureJames >> Hi all, >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > included in the price. The original, cheap price is not the true price > and is, in fact, too good to be true. Based on the OP's name, could it be a Chinese philosophical thing? Maybe they don't believe that simplicity necesarily means it's false, as indeed it doesn't. Perhaps Westerners are more cynical. SignatureLong-time resident of Adelaide, South Australia, which may or may not influence my opinions. > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Any hints will be highly appreciated. Some statement was so simple that it couldn't be true. The true version had to be more complicated. -- Jerry Friedman >> Hi all, >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Some statement was so simple that it couldn't be true. The true >version had to be more complicated. Enter the appropriate figures on your 1040 and you'll be done with your taxes in minutes. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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