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Idioms and Phrases

Improve a situation or effect a favorable result, as in Tell me if this new medicine does any good . [Early 1700s] A negative version, do no good , is slightly older (late 1600s); for example, All his explanations will do no good .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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