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turn to good account



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Use for one's benefit, as in He turned the delay to good account, using the time to finish correspondence . This idiom, first recorded in 1878, uses account in the sense of “a reckoning.”

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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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