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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Well

Hi.

"If the attack results in checkmate, then well and good."

What's meant by "Well and good"?Excellent or good?OR better than anything else?
  

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org/wiki/and goo d ( idiomatic ) Basically good, but with some shortcoming or limitatio n. Having 200,000 entries is all well and good , but the data will be useless unless people can find what they need. com) It's use in your quote is unusual.

  • org/wiki/and goo d ( idiomatic ) Basically good, but with some shortcoming or limitatio n.
  • Having 200,000 entries is all well and good , but the data will be useless unless people can find what they need.
  • com) It's use in your quote is unusual.
  • Rover
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3 Answers
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'Well and good' or 'All well and good' is an idiom with the following meaning:

well http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/and
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So it means not bad?
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It means what it says in the definition.

In your quote it means 'perfect'. You've achieved checkmate - the object of the game.

Rover

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