to the good


Also, all to the good. to an advantage or profit, as in We've got extra material and that's all to the good, I think. This idiom was first recorded in 1882.

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How to use to the good in a sentence

  • Black her eye for love's sake, if you will; but it is all-to-the-good business to do a thing when she wants you to do it.

    The Trimmed Lamp | O. Henry