perfectly good
Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words
Completely good, often used to contrast with an unnecessary negative action.
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Examples (20)
- Why ruin a perfectly good story?
- Why are you throwing away that perfectly good shirt?
- There's a perfectly good chair in the other room.
- There's no reason to buy a new car when yours is still perfectly good.
- You threw away a perfectly good pair of shoes!
- She refused to eat the perfectly good food just because it was a day old.
- He abandoned a perfectly good career to travel the world.
- He wasted a perfectly good afternoon sitting indoors doing nothing.
- Don't waste perfectly good food like that.
- You are ruining a perfectly good opportunity by being so pessimistic.
- She left a perfectly good job without any explanation.
- The old computer is still perfectly good for basic word processing tasks.
- That's a perfectly good solution to the problem.
- It seems a shame to tear down a perfectly good building like this.
- They tore down a perfectly good building to make room for parking.
- Don't throw those leftovers away; they are still perfectly good to eat.
- There's no need to buy new ones when these are perfectly good.
- I don't want to replace this sofa; it's perfectly good and very comfortable.
- I can't believe you're replacing a perfectly good phone just because a new model came out.
- Why waste a perfectly good excuse to stay home and relax?