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for good and all

for good and all adverb: in a way that is conclusive and final.

Adverb

for good and all (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) In a way that is conclusive and final.
    • hauing prepared a like feather to the same, of some other Hawke or fowle, resembling the broken feather: you muste cutte the quyll of it, and so force it togyther, as it maye enter the broken quyll of the Hawkes feather, annoynting it before you thruste it in, or seeme to place it for good and all...1575, George Turberville, The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, London: Christopher Barker, Part 3, p. 275
    • It is so long since the reader […] has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him, merely to put him in mind that there is such a body still in the world, and whom […] I am going to introduce to him for good and all:1760, Laurence Sterne, chapter 13, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 1, page 53

Examples of for good and all in a sentence

  • Say four pound, and you’ve got rid of him for good and all.1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […]...
  • ‘It gets worse and worse the further we go,’ said Acorn. ‘Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all?’1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, Puffin, published 1973, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 61:
  • […] we gonna talk this through for good and all.2020, Monique Roffey, chapter 9, in The Mermaid of Black Conch, Leeds: Peepal Tree Press:

Synonyms of for good and all

Questions about for good and all

What does for good and all mean?
For good and all means in a way that is conclusive and final.
How do you use for good and all in a sentence?
Say four pound, and you’ve got rid of him for good and all.
What part of speech is for good and all?
For good and all is an adverb.

Words near for good and all in the dictionary

  1. for fun
  2. for fuxake
  3. for God's sake
  4. for Goddess's sake
  5. for good
  6. for good and all
  7. for good measure
  8. for good or ill
  9. for goodness' sake
  10. for goodness' sakes
  11. for goodness's sake

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