as good as

Idioms  

1. see good as.

2. Practically, in effect, almost the same as, as in He as good as promised to buy a new car, or The house is as good as sold. This idiom is very widely used to modify just about any verb, adverb, or adjective. However, it has been used so often with certain words that together they themselves now make up idioms (see the following entries beginning with good as).

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Example Sentences

I am to this day faithfully obsessed with his methods and writing style, but as I arrived in Los Angeles, I was just hoping to write one sentence one day as good as any one sentence in “Garp,” and by so doing, make something of myself.

From Los Angeles Times

The pressure of sending a missive to the one writer you had lived your entire professional life wishing you could ever be as good as nearly derailed the whole enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times

Connor Page's dad Kevin told BBC Scotland News that he "cries every day" and said Colville's actions "as good as killed" his heartbroken wife Jill, who died after her health deteriorated last August.

From BBC

"His detail, how he approaches the day-to-day, he's as good as I've worked with."

From BBC

“We want to be as good as we can be, but I think you learn harder lessons when you don’t play as well as you can or we’re undisciplined or we aren’t as focused as we need to be,” Gottlieb said.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• about
• approximately
• around
• essentially
• most
• much
• practically
• relatively
• roughly
• virtually