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单词 a likely story
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a likely story

Used to express disbelief of an account or excuse: ‘She’s your lodger? A likely story!’...
  • The Timaeus, however, presents itself not as serious cosmology but merely as a likely story, an example of the kind of account that Plato thinks is the right one to give; it is poetic and grandiose in style.
  • Craccum: rehashing news from the Dominion Post on the legal action, and ignoring a likely story about why the University of Auckland was the best in the country - research wise at least.
  • The gentleman told me his name was ‘John’, a likely story, I thought to myself and that it was his ‘sixth day at the gym’.

Synonyms

unlikely, implausible, unbelievable, incredible, untenable, unacceptable, inconceivable
See parent entry: likely
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