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well and good



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Idioms and Phrases

Acceptable, all right, as in If you can get a better discount elsewhere, well and good . This redundant phrase was first recorded in 1699.
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Example Sentences

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All well and good and fair enough, but it’s bizarre for Peretti to ascribe this trend to the emergence of TikTok and black-box feeds when users have bemoaned the prevalence of platform-incentivized outrage since the days of Usenet.

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"If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator. And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day," he said.

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Namely, that it was all well and good, but who of consequence had they played?

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All well and good, but that takes time, and the need is urgent.

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That is all well and good, and is obviously sound advice.

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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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