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Idioms and Phrases
Improve a situation or effect a favorable result, as in Tell me if this new medicine does any good . [Early 1700s] A negative version, do no good , is slightly older (late 1600s); for example, All his explanations will do no good .Advertisement
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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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