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  All's Well That Ends Well

  noun

  a comedy (1602?) by Shakespeare.
• All's well that ends well
  All's well that ends well

  Problems that occur along the way do not matter as long as the outcome is happy.
• all's well that ends well
  all's well that ends well

  Everything has turned out satisfactorily, even though the outcome has been uncertain. For example, His lawyer persuaded Jack to plead guilty, but the court merely put him on probation—all's well that ends well. This proverb, dating from about 1250, gained even more currency as the title of a Shakespeare comedy.

All's Well That Ends Well

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1602?) by Shakespeare.

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All's well that ends well Cultural  

1. Problems that occur along the way do not matter as long as the outcome is happy.

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all's well that ends well Idioms  

1. Everything has turned out satisfactorily, even though the outcome has been uncertain. For example, His lawyer persuaded Jack to plead guilty, but the court merely put him on probation—all's well that ends well. This proverb, dating from about 1250, gained even more currency as the title of a Shakespeare comedy.

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This proverb was used as a title for one of William Shakespeare's comedies.

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All's Well That Ends Well All's well that ends well all's well that ends well

The subsidised tickets will be available to book for the company's upcoming performances of Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2022

"A pox upon him," a phrase that's lasted through the centuries, comes from "All's Well That Ends Well."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2014

All’s Well That Ends Well: Sean ends his dance by publicly kissing Catherine to prove their love is real as is their upcoming ABC-sponsored wedding.

From Time ● Apr. 9, 2013

Cullum, last seen on Broadway in "The Scottsboro Boys," will play Escalus in "Measure for Measure" and the King of France in "All's Well That Ends Well."

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2011

The most charming of all Shakespear's old women, indeed the most charming of all his women, young or old, is the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well.

From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw

"All's well that ends well", she told her Instagram followers on Tuesday, posting photos of the beachside getaway.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2023

All’s well that ends well and — as in 1988 — that year ended in a parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

All's well that ends well... but really, what was Joe Maddon thinking?

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016

All’s well that ends well for Carrington - he’s looking forward to March 12.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2015

All's well that ends well, but you gave me a pretty bad turn.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

If all’s well that ends well, then investors have nothing to worry about.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

In the immortal words of the Bard, all’s well that ends well.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

"I don’t have any details to recall, I just know that all’s well that ends well."

From Fox News ● Aug. 4, 2021

But this is not a matter of all’s well that ends well.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2020

However, all’s well that ends well, and I haven’t come back to be a skeleton at the feast.

From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather