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but good

Emphatically, thoroughly, as in Ruth decided to clean up the whole yard but good. The word but in this colloquialism functions as an intensive. Also see and how.

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But good managers adapt and at the moment, Potter isn't adapting.

From BBC

“Democrats we have shown up to a gunfight with nothing but good intentions and dull knives, and that era is over. We are not going to unilaterally disarm, and that is what’s different this time around.”

From Salon

A powerful man, he was not quite at full throttle, but good.

From BBC

“Should credit a lot of good success that I’ve had to them, and how they handled and treated me. Nothing but good things to say there.”

From Los Angeles Times

"It's a final, so they are dangerous even though they can't maybe play the greatest football yet, but they have it inside them. It will be a hard, but good game."

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