Too close for comfort
Also, too close to home. Dangerously nearby or accurate, as in That last shot was too close for comfort, or Their attacks on the speaker hit too close to home, and he left in a huff.
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Resulting in too narrow a margin to make a decision, as in That ball didn’t miss by much but it was too close to call, or The election was too close to call, so they decided to have a runoff. This expression comes from sports, where call has signified “a judgment” since the mid-1600s. In […]
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- Too good to be true
So excellent that it defies belief, as in She loves all her in-laws? That’s too good to be true. This term expresses the skeptical view that something so seemingly fine must have something wrong with it. The term was part of the title of Thomas Lupton’s Sivquila; Too Good to be True (1580).
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too big for one’s breeches