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Idioms and Phrases
Emphatically, thoroughly, as in Ruth decided to clean up the whole yard but good . The word but in this colloquialism functions as an intensive. Also see and how .Example Sentences
He told the BBC he knew the risks of what he was doing - but "good or bad, whatever may be, I would be helping".
But “Good Morning America†— which has three of the highest-paid news hosts in TV with George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan — is running behind NBC’s “Today†for the first time in seven years.
But good politics — and especially good presidential campaigns — takes bad ones.
I tried not to think about what my ex-husband had told me right before walking out of our marriage: “You like to joke you’re bad in the kitchen but good in the bedroom. The truth is: You’re not good in either of them.â€
“I think it’s great, the more people who are leaning in and shining a light on the issues, that can’t be anything but good,†Caruso said.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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