like fun

Idioms  

1. 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.

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like fun

In this context, medbeds seemed conceptually like fun oddities, akin more to palm readings than to predatory disinformation.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Maybe some people see that working a lot of hours and not spending money doesn't look like fun - but the feeling behind it gives me respect for myself, and that makes me happy."

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Chris Miller and Phil Lord, creators of the murder-mystery comedy series, thought doing eight perspectives on a parlor mystery sounded like fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

The message of the story was much more embedded, and it felt escapist and it felt like fun.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

It tasted like summer, like fun, like innocence in the Rio Grande; so I swallowed, and the purity of it was divine.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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