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.
See also:
  • (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?