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have a good time

Enjoy oneself, as in I hope you have a good time at the beach. This idiom, also used as an imperative, dates from 16th-century England, where it was popular until the late 1600s and died out. Samuel Pepys, in a diary entry of March 1, 1666, wrote, “I went and had as good a time as heart could wish.” In America it continued to be used, and in the 1800s it reappeared in British speech as well. Also see hard time; show one a good time.

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RELATED WORDS

love, like, savor, appreciate, relish, go, adore, dig, mind, fancy

Nearby words

have a good command of, have a good day, have a good head on one's shoulders, have a good mind to, have a good thing going, have a good time, have a grasp of, have a hand in, have a hard time, have a head for, have a heart
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