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for good measure

if you do something or add something for good measure, you do it or add it in addition to something else. In today's programme we have a full report on today's top football matches, with some cricket and athletics thrown in for good measure. I swept the floor and polished the table, and then, for good measure, I cleaned the windows.

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This meant longer hours of travel, and Daylight, for good measure and for a margin against accidents, hit the trail for twelve hours a day. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context I wouldn't trade a square mile of this kind of country for the whole Sacramento Valley, with the river islands thrown in and Middle River for good measure. The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context The crowd assenting, substituted Gabriel Varden for the nothing particular; and giving him one over, for good measure, dispersed in high good-humour. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

This meant longer hours of travel, and Daylight, for good measure and for a margin against accidents, hit the trail for twelve hours a day.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

I wouldn't trade a square mile of this kind of country for the whole Sacramento Valley, with the river islands thrown in and Middle River for good measure.

The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context

The crowd assenting, substituted Gabriel Varden for the nothing particular; and giving him one over, for good measure, dispersed in high good-humour.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

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