to the good

Also, all to the good. to an advantage or profit, as in We've got extra material and that's all to the good, I think. This idiom was first recorded in 1882.

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The actors at times seem to be speed-reading their lines, rushing through the notoriously long play to get to the good bits.

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In an 1899 encyclical, he warned American Catholics not to stray from the Church’s teachings in the name of following “the spirit of the age,” arguing there was more to the good life than the pursuit of money and individualism.

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"I had to write a lot of bad songs to get to the good ones - and artists deserve that freedom, to explore horrible concepts, and to flop, and rise, and not be pressured into making music based off of what's trending."

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Chappell Roan, who won best international act and international song for Good Luck, Babe!, noted via a video link how she had to write "a lot of bad songs to get to the good ones".

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It came less than three months after the people of Northern Ireland had voted yes to the Good Friday Agreement.

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to the full to the hilt

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