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Good for Anything

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Ripe for any sort of work.

“After a man has had a year or two at this sort of work, he is good … . for anything.”—Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, chap. xi.

Not good for anything. Utterly worthless; used up or worn down.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Good Graces (To get into one’s)
Good Hater (A)
Good Lady (The)
Good Neighbours
Good Regent
Good Samaritan
Good Time
Good Turn (To do a)
Good and All (For)
Good as Gold
Good for Anything
Good Wine needs no Bush
Goods
Goodfellow (Robin)
Goodluck’s Close (Norfolk)
Goodman
Goodman, or St. Gutman
Goodman of Ballengeich
Goodman’s Croft
Goodman’s Fields
Goodwin Sands