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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
As for transferring, Brown said, “I’m a loyal guy. I was Santa Monica through and through. It’s not easy coming from a public school with 3,000 people to Notre Dame. I think it was a good move for me. There’s nothing but good people here. It’s just a start. More to come.”
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.”
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