well and good

Idioms  

1. Acceptable, all right, as in If you can get a better discount elsewhere, well and good. This redundant phrase was first recorded in 1699.

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well and good

For Walter, 66, who grew up playing youth baseball about 50 miles from the Iowa cornfield that became Kevin Costner’s “Field of Dreams,” that financial success was all well and good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

We said, that’s all well and good, but young Black men and women are interested in making their community a better place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

She said that would be "all well and good" if her MP achieved great things for the town, but she said she did not believe he had.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

These developments are all well and good, but ultimately the Fed has to see the proof in the form of a steadily declining inflation rate.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026

All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis