Acceptable Phrases

Phrases

• A bridge too far
• A change is as good as a rest
• A fine line
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A good egg
• A good man is hard to find
• A good mind to
• A good time was had by all
• A hard man is good to find
• A little of what you fancy does you good
• A miss is as good as a mile
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
• A world of good
• All good things must come to an end
• All in a good time
• All publicity is good publicity
• All to the good
• Always good, all ways (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
• As fine as frog's hair
• As good as gold
• As good as it gets
• As good as new
• As good as your word
• As good luck would have it
• Bad money drives out good
• Ball achingly good
• Bang out of order
• Be a good sport
• Beyond the pale
• Bog standard
• Bonus genius (a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone)
• Boy made good
• Can you hear me now? Good! (Verizon wireless advertising slogan)
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Come good
• Confession is good for the soul
• Cut it fine
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do a good turn
• Do not go gentle into that good night (from a poem by Dylan Thomas)
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Do yourself a power of good
• Double standard
• Drink Barq's it's good (Barq's sarsaparilla drink advertising slogan)
• Enough is as good as a feast
• Every time a good time (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Feel good factor
• Fight the good fight
• Fine and dandy
• Fine dining
• Fine feathered
• Fine figure of a man
• Fine figure of a woman
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• For he's a jolly good fellow
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Get good wood on it
• Get while the getting's good
• Get while the going is good
• Give a good account of yourself
• Give him a right good Hemeling tonight (Hemeling Lager advertising slogan)
• Give someone a good talking to
• Go through with a fine toothed comb
• God's good earth
• Good Americans when they die go to Paris
• Good Day Sunshine (The Beatles song)
• Good Feeling (Flo Rida song)
• Good Friday
• Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard song)
• Good Night And Good Luck (George Clooney movie)
• Good Queen Bess (Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I)
• Good Samaritan
• Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Good Vibrations (Beach Boys song)
• Good afternoon
• Good and dead
• Good and ready
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Good bacon has Danish written all over it (Danish Bacon advertising slogan)
• Good bet
• Good buddy
• Good call
• Good clean fun
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• Good conduct star
• Good cop, bad cop
• Good egg
• Good enough to eat
• Good evening
• Good fences make good neighbours
• Good for Life! (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• Good for a laugh
• Good for nothing
• Good for you
• Good golly
• Good grief
• Good hands
• Good head on his shoulders
• Good heavens
• Good in parts
• Good luck would have it
• Good men and true
• Good morning
• Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap? (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Good morning, Mr. Phelps (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Good mornings follow a good Nytol (Nytol Sleeping Pills advertising slogan)
• Good old boys
• Good old times
• Good read
• Good riddance
• Good sport
• Good talk saves the food
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Good things come in threes
• Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Good time charlie
• Good time girl
• Good timing
• Good to go
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Good vibes
• Got it down to a fine art
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Guinness is Good for You (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Had a good innings
• Had a good run
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Have you read any good books lately?
• Hello, good evening and welcome (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• Hey Good Lookin (Hank Williams song)
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Holiday cheer (good feelings during a holiday, especially Christmas)
• I Feel Fine (Beatles song)
• I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
• I have it on good authority
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I'd rather be lucky than good
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If it feels good then just do it (Nike advertising slogan)
• If it's Borden's, it's got to be good (Borden Inc advertising slogan)
• If it's good it's good
• If you can't be good, be careful
• In fine fettle
• In fine form
• In good company
• In good nick
• In good odour
• In good time
• In the worst possible taste
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• It Was A Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra song)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It looks good, it tastes good, and by golly it does you good (Mackeson Beer advertising slogan)
• It takes AGES to be as good as SEGA (SEGA Saturn Console advertising slogan)
• It won't wash
• It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• It's all good
• It's all good clean fun
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• It's good to play together (Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Jack is as good as his master
• Just good friends
• Keep a good house
• Keep up the good work
• Let the good times roll
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Looking good
• M'm! M'm! Good! (Campbell's Soup advertising slogan)
• Make a good fist of it
• Make a good job of it
• Make good
• Make good time
• Make good your escape
• Manana is good enough for me
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Morally unacceptable
• Mr Kipling does make exceedingly good cakes (Mr Kipling Cakes advertising slogan)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• No good deed goes unpunished
• No news is good news
• Not good
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• One fine day
• One good turn deserves another
• Onto a good thing
• Out of order
• Put in a good word for
• Put to good use
• Rain before seven, fine before eleven
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• She's apples
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• So far so good
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Stand in good stead
• Standard of the World (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take it in good part
• Take the good with the bad
• Talk a good game
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• That's all well and good
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Gold Standard
• The Good Book
• The Good Shepherd
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The best defence is a good offence
• The best is the enemy of the good
• The common good
• The good die young
• The good gets better with golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The good is the enemy of the best
• The good old days
• The great and the good
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• The world of good
• There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• Too good to be true
• Too good to hurry mints (Murray Mints advertising slogan)
• Too much of a good thing
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Toronto The Good (Nickname of Toronto Ontario)
• Touching is good! (Nintendo DS advertising slogan)
• Treading a fine line
• Twelve good men and true
• Up to no good
• Up to par
• Up to scratch
• Up to snuff
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• We'll take good care of you (British Airways advertising slogan)
• What's the good word?
• Winston tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• With good grace
• Worrying never did anyone any good
• Wouldn't go amiss
• You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse song)
• You can have too much of a good thing
• You can't handle the truth (A Few Good Men)
• You can't keep a good man down
• You're As Good As The Best And Better Than The Rest (Tina Turner song)
• You're in good hands (Allstate Insurance advertising slogan)
• You've Got a Good Thing Going (Kent Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• You've never had it so good (Harold Macmillan quotation)
• Your good deed for the day
• Your guess is as good as mine