“I am disappointed in good”: what does this expression mean?

"This film disappointed me in a good way, I was expecting a turnip!"

It sometimes happens that we are

by something that we imagined to be unsatisfactory, even bad.

This is what the expression

means , according to the Panfrancophone lexicographic database (BDLP).

Have you ever heard it?

This phrase has been present in the Larousse since 2015. What nuance does it bring to our language?

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Moderate your enthusiasm

“Disappointed in good”

makes it possible to express one's satisfaction with moderation and prudence.

In

by Mathieu Avanzi, the expression is described thus

.

To say

is to keep the pejorative connotation of disappointment to curb excessive enthusiasm.

But this attenuation is perhaps due to the spite of seeing his pessimistic forecast defeated!

We sometimes laugh at being stung by the fact that things are going better than announced.

For Georges Arès, author of

, this expression is

, because

.

The expression is therefore not without humour, just like

, literally

.

It joins other expressions that are both funny and euphemistic, among which we find

, which designates extreme heat, or

, which means to lie.