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to the good

Also, all to the good. to an advantage or profit, as in We've got extra material and that's all to the good, I think. This idiom was first recorded in 1882.

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to the core, to the effect that, to the ends of the earth, to the fore, to the full, to the good, to the hilt, to the last, to the letter, to the life, To the Lighthouse
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