couldn't happen to a nicer (person)
couldn't happen to a nicer (person)
Of an outcome, completely deserved by the person or people in question. Sometimes used sarcastically when referring to a negative event happening to an unpleasant person. Dawn and her partner are expecting their first child this summer. They're so excited, and it couldn't happen to a nicer couple. I hear that jerk Tony is heading into bankruptcy—couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
See also: happen
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- (I) would if I could
- (Is) that everything?
- (well,) I never!
- a bright spark
- twenty-twenty hindsight, with
- a (real) winner
- a bright idea
- bright idea
- barrel of fun
- come again?