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нарочно не придумаешьstresses
gen. you couldn't make it up! (Рина Грант)
cliche. you just can't make this stuff up (Civil servants using a government credit card to pay for their meals at Hooters? Wow! You just can't make this stuff up! ART Vancouver); can't make it up (Can't make it up. A cop pulled over a driver today on West Broadway at Cambie. This guy had an iPad and a cell phone attached with a piece of string to his steering wheel, he was wearing headphones and listening to music while driving his Lexus, the headphones were plugged into the phone, and he didn't even have his driver's licence! I think they should put him in jail. (Twitter) ART Vancouver); can't make that up (The millionaire claimed the bribes he had paid for his two sons' admission as donations to a charity helping low-income kids to pay for their higher education. Can't make that up! ART Vancouver); you can't make some of this stuff up, can you? (a listener's reaction ART Vancouver)
euph. you can't make this shit up (Decider)
proverb truth is stranger than fiction (Yeldar Azanbayev)
saying. you can't make this up (Баян); you can't make this stuff up (Баян); can't make this up (Баян)
нарочно не придумаешь!
gen. this is quite something (Anglophile)
Нарочно не придумаешь!
brit. you couldn't make it up! (Said in reference to something too astonishing to be believed:

‘it is so ridiculous, you couldn't make it up' Bullfinch)

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