释义 |
a likely storyUsed 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 |