all for the best

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, for the best . Best in the long run, despite appearances to the contrary. It is often a response to an unhappy outcome, as in They had to sell their business, but since they weren't making money it's probably for the best , or The dress had been sold when she went back, but since it was a little too tight it's all for the best . [Late 1300s]

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“Even the hard parts were all for the best,” she decides, and her voice leaps up — above double-time drums, swirling backup vocals and cavernous bass tones — as she realizes, “I must have loved you more than I ever knew,” at once self-congratulatory and unburdened.

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If roles or songs were taken from her and given to others, all for the best.

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This is all for the best, but I am nonetheless grateful for having been exposed to Gilman’s unadulterated critical sensibility.

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No trouble at all for the best pitcher in Fayette County.

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For Democrats pushing for the stock ban, the resistance of their leaders is all for the best, at least politically.

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