cool story bro
- idiom
- Offensive
:
vaya historia, tío
- She kept talking about her high school achievements, and I just said, 'cool story bro.'
Examples
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That's a cool story bro.
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If someone shares a pointless detail, you might respond with 'cool story bro.'
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After his long explanation, Mark replied with a sarcastic 'cool story bro.'
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Wow, a cool story bro moment right there!
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After his long explanation, I replied with a sarcastic 'cool story bro.'
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If someone shares a pointless detail, saying 'cool story bro' is a common reaction.
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She talked on and on about her high school achievements, so I just shrugged and said, 'cool story bro.'
Synonyms
77
2.7
An interesting tale about events that makes people laugh
28
9.5
Very unfunny and not impressive, so people feel disappointed
5
7.5
A reason or explanation that is very weak and not believable
5
9.3
Words or ideas that sound important but have little real meaning
Words said to show you do not believe someone's excuse or story
A phrase people say to show they have done something before and are not impressed
Antonyms
How Sarcastic
Surface Forms
Morphology
On the surface the phrase literally combines 'cool' + 'story' + 'bro' so a learner might interpret it as praising a narrative, but in actual usage it functions as a sarcastic, dismissive retort. The ironic/dismissive force depends on pragmatic and cultural knowledge (tone, sarcasm conventions) that B1 learners who only know the words are unlikely to infer reliably.
Etymology
The idiom cool story bro began as an online joke where people answered a long or silly tale with the flat words cool, story, bro. Because the reply sounds polite but shows no real interest, it came to mean 'to dismiss' or 'not impressed', so today cool story bro is used sarcastically to show boredom.