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Originally Posted by VydorScope
So in a dialog between two characters the one says something like "Yeah, we have this bad problem" and the other guy says:
If that were only the case, I would be overjoyed.
Meaning "If that was the problem, things would be easy, but it is not."
My wife has not heard that expression before so I am wondering if I dreamed it or not.  |
The 'only' seems a bit odd to my ear. I would go for
If that were the case, I would be overjoyed.
or
If only that were the case!
(where the joy is implied)