all for the best

1. 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]

Example Sentences

“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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