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for good measure

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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.
See also: good, measure


for good measure
in addition to something else already said or done. He wrote a great article, and for good measure took the photograph used for the magazine cover.
See also: good, measure


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