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have a good time

Idioms  

  1. Enjoy oneself, as in I hope you have a good time at the beach. This idiom, also used as an imperative, dates from 16th-century England, where it was popular until the late 1600s and died out. Samuel Pepys, in a diary entry of March 1, 1666, wrote, “I went and had as good a time as heart could wish.” In America it continued to be used, and in the 1800s it reappeared in British speech as well. Also see hard time; show one a good time.

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"I still had a good time - my entire personality is not my job," she said.

From BBC

In between, everyone seemed to have a good time.

From Los Angeles Times

And I thought people would really have a good time with Aunt Gladys.

From Los Angeles Times

"We used to come in groups to study and have a good time," recalls Adam Hafiz Ibrahim, a student at Omdurman Islamic University.

From Barron's

"I knew two or three people in the group. They'd invited me along and said, 'come and have a good time. You'll meet some new people'," he explained.

From BBC

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