good as gold, as

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Completely genuine; also, well behaved. For example, Her credit is as good as gold , or The children were good as gold . With this alliterative idiom the initial as is sometimes dropped, and nearly always so when behavior is referred to. [Late 1600s]

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good as done, as good as one's word, as

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