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Good Hater (A)

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I love a good hater. I like a man to be with me or against me, either to be hot or cold. Dr. Johnson called Bathurst the physician a “good hater,” because he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; “he,” said the Doctor, “was a very good hater.”

 

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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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Gonsalez [Gon-zalley]
Gonville College (Cambridge)
Good
Good-bye
Good-Cheap
Good Duke Humphrey
Good Folk (Scotch guid folk)
Good Form, Bad Form
Good Friday
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