Meanings
- informalrhetoricsarcasticsometimesRhetorically implying that what is spoken of is undoubtedly good.
Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?
2012, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained (motion picture), spoken by Django (Jamie Foxx)2 more examples
What's not to like about Robin Hood? I'll steal from the rich and give to a poor bear: me.
1964, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (motion picture), spoken by Yogi Bear (Daws Butler)[…]–one would think that this comedy offered satisfactions for gender theorists, feminists, queer theorists, Marxists, and ecocritics alike. What's not to like in As You Like It?
2009, Linda Woodbridge, “Country Matters: As You Like It and the Pastoral-Bashing Impulse”, in Harold Bloom, editor, William Shakespeare: Comedies, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 23
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
American origin, 1960s.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish mitä muuta voisi toivoa
- mitä muuta voisi toivoaTranslations
French que demander de plus, que demander de mieux
- que demander de plusTranslations
- que demander de mieuxTranslations
- que demande le peupleTranslations
German was will man mehr
- was will man mehrTranslations
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