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like fun
Idioms and Phrases
Not really, certainly not. For example, She said she'd been skiing for years—like fun she had! or Do I want to eat raw oysters—like fun I do . This expression originated in the early 1800s with a quite different meaning, “energetically” or “vigorously,” a sense now obsolete. Its present sense dates from the 1900s. Also see for fun .Example Sentences
“I feel like I’m at a point in my career where I just want to do things I want to do — things that sound like fun, sound like a challenge,” said Underwood, whose popular residency at Las Vegas’ Resorts World casino is set to conclude next month after more than three years.
“Sure, sounds like fun,” she said as if agreeing to a Sunday movie matinee.
On paper, it might sound like fun for an actor to play such a juicy, bad-tempered character.
Sure, pretending to be doggies with an enthusiastic toddler looks like fun and mommy used to be an artist, so there are still some creative sparks left in a brain that has long ceded individual identity to full-time motherhood.
Artistic swimming looked like fun.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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