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

While it’s all well and good to connect with people over a mutual hobby, online discourse provides a much more fertile foundation than small talk.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

Households are feeling wealthier as the AI-driven bull market continues, which is “all well and good until asset prices go back down,” said Albert Edwards, global strategist at Société Générale, in a Thursday client note.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026

Using big pocketbooks to lay claim to the supply chain is all well and good for those who can afford it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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

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