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Idioms  

1. Very, as in I'll go when I'm good and ready, or Mike was good and mad at Tom. This phrase is used to intensify the words that follow. [Colloquial; early 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Last time I went, we tried the Thai corn fritter which was really good and crispy.

From Los Angeles Times

But the two German teams were too good and the only way Wyatt and Tarbit could have got on the podium would have been if Weston and Stoecker had not.

From BBC

Learning about his family history, the good and the bad, Newsom said, helped him understand and accept himself.

From Los Angeles Times

Sometimes postwork life is exactly what you expected and sometimes it isn’t—in ways both good and bad.

From The Wall Street Journal

In life, she says, "you always have to choose, to decide which path to follow. There is the good and the bad."

From BBC