[Ads-l] "couldn't be more than" = '(emphatically) is'

[Jonathan Lighter]

2018 _The Young and the Restless_ (CBS-TV): Oh, you're father's never going
to fully trust me with anything. And the feeling couldn't be more than
mutual.

Perh. dumbly expanded from "couldn't be more mutual."

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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