nice try
Dismissive praise phrase
Nice try acknowledges an attempt while dismissing it as unsuccessful.
The phrase often carries a sarcastic edge, suggesting the effort was transparent or doomed from the start: Nice try, but I'm not falling for that.
It can also offer genuine consolation after a failed attempt: Nice try—you almost had it.
- attemptEffort to accomplish
- fat chanceSarcastic denial of possibility
- missFail to reach
- swing and a missFailed batting attempt
- dream onDismissive of unlikely hopes
in your dreams · as if · sarcasm · yeah right · effort · shrug · chuckle · busted · caught · caught red handed · patronizing · wink · foiled · humor · banter · grin · stumble · so close
- Feedback Phrasesgood job, well done, great job, excellent, perfect
- encouragementsyou can do it, you got this, you've got this, keep going, keep it up
- sarcastic phraseswhatever, who cares, yeah right, so what, why bother
- sarcasmyeah right, oh please, as if, oh really, how original
- disbeliefdisbelief, no way, incredulity, unbelievable, yeah right
- evasionsno comment, dodge, deflection, hedging, equivocation