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not bad



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, not half bad ; not so or too bad ; not too shabby . Fairly good, as in Not bad, said the conductor, but we need to play the scherzo again , or The movie wasn't half bad, but Jerry wanted to go home , or Our garden's not too bad this year , or How are things going?—Not too shabby . All of the terms involving bad , which imply that something is less bad than it might be, date from the mid-1700s. The last variant, using shabby in the sense of “inferior,†is slang of the late 1900s.
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Example Sentences

Tatyana Krivitsky defended the track record of the congregate facilities, saying their history of violations was “not bad at all†given their patient population.

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The judge said what happened was "not bad luck", it was "an entire failure to look after Albie and keep him safe".

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“People don’t realize that we are not bad as small landlords,†he said.

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“It’s not bad for the future, having this kind of network, relationship and experience in America,†he said.

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“We obeyed the law and we kept the peace. And that’s not bad.â€

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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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