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good deal en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. (Southern-US, especially, informal) Excellent! Used to indicate approval, or agreement.
    • "Hi Ted," my mom said. She handed him pillows and duffel bags. Everyone's ready." "Good deal. Let's hit the road." 2011 April 5, Traci Foust, Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:
    • "You lucky duck! Say, how's Connor!!! Is he three now!!" "He's five, actually, and doing just great!" "Five!! Oh good deal! Gosh, I haven't seen him in ages! He must be getting SO BIG!" 2002, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, page 32:
    • "So, they will be ready to go come Friday?" he asked. I gave him another thumbs up. […] "They will be ready." "Good deal. If anything changes, just let me know." 2020 November 18, Kevin Johnson, Bridging the Gap, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:
    • You got everything packed? Good deal!

good deal en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, often, singular, usually, with indefinite article) Large number, amount, or extent.
    • We have a good deal of territory to cover.
    • You may make a good deal of that little fact if properly worked. 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, How to Write a Blackwood Article:
    • A friend suggested that, if I really wanted to have the satisfaction of taking a difficult examination, I should pass the London Matriculation. It meant a good deal of labour and much addition to my stock of general knowledge, without any extra expense worth the name. I welcomed the suggestion. But the syllabus frightened me. Latin and a modern language were compulsory! 1825-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi
    • The audience is generally unaware of the good deal of work that goes into its creation.
    • She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels. 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
    • He made a good deal of trouble for us.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, deal.
    • There are plenty of good deals on flights.
    • I can offer you a good deal on that van.

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Relateds

a good deal · great deal