as good as
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see good as.
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Practically, in effect, almost the same as, as in He as good as promised to buy a new car, or The house is as good as sold. This idiom is very widely used to modify just about any verb, adverb, or adjective. However, it has been used so often with certain words that together they themselves now make up idioms (see the following entries beginning with good as).
Example Sentences
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As a comedy, it is often predicable — you know that things will work out, and some major plot points are as good as inevitable — but it’s the good sort of predictability, where you get what you came for, where you hear the words you want to hear, ones you could never have written yourself.
From Los Angeles Times
By giving his best to the end, he made the American side as good as it needed to be to beat the Soviets in the medal round and Finland for the gold.
"He's not got time to look left or right. He's got to be fully focused on straight ahead and the next game, and trying to be as good as he can be."
From BBC
“This is as good as fixed income has looked, in general, in a long time,” Malloy says.
From Barron's
Feeling as good as if I had just waded the Mississippi River, I breathed a sigh of relief and lit out for the barn to get some straw.
From Literature
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