to the good

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Anais’s mother, Bettina Jevtitch, remembers an easier path to the good life when she was young.

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Newcastle will cling to positives having hauled themselves within two points of parity twice when they were a man to the good, but it will be a lasting frustration that they were unable to capitalise further.

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Even the “basic jitteriness” he identified in his own letter-writing is actually all to the good; they have the repleteness of his fiction, the springy, unexpected notice of the smallest particulars.

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Partnering with Harjo after a sensational guest appearance in “Reservation Dogs” allows him to come home in other ways, channeling the oddball electricity that he lent to “The Good Lord Bird” into a less blustery and more poignant role.

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"One's heart has to go out to the good people at Bodycare who are losing their jobs, the suppliers missing payments, and the landlords losing rent. That is the vicious circle of business failure."

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