When are good situations to use the phrase "見事にやられた"?


When are good situations to use the phrase "見事にやられた" ?

In the language guide book "Shadowing," the authors use it to refer to doing
very badly on an exam.

Thank you.




You say "やられた!" when you acknowledge that you have been outsmarted,
outperformed or outdone by someone. For example, when you lose a game or find
yourself outmaneuvered by your opponent, you can say "やられた!" to admit defeat.
Other situations in which you might say "やられた!" include when a competitor
releases a new product that outperforms yours, when your rival solves a
problem that you were struggling with, or when you're surprised by a prank.
Adding 見事に ("excellently; neatly") as an intensifier emphasizes the extent of
your defeat or surprise.

When you say "(見事に)やられた" after getting a bad score on a test, it implies
something like "The teacher outsmarted/tricked me and gave me unexpected (yet
reasonable) questions!"

**EDIT:** Grammatically, やられた is the (past) passive form of やる ("to do"), and
this type of passive is called ["suffering
passive"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/70533/5010) (迷惑の受け身). The idea
is someone did something and it negatively affected you.

