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*good as gold

Cliché very good. (Usually used to describe children. *Also: as ∼.) Mother: Thank you for taking care of Gretchen; I hope she hasn't been too much trouble. Grandmother: Not at all; she's been as good as gold. We knew that Daddy would not read us a bedtime story unless we behaved, so we tried to be good as gold.

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We have come to tea with our cousin, and we'll be as good as gold if you'll let us stay, auntie," clamoured the boys, who not only approved of "our cousin" but had no mind to lose their tea, for Aunt Plenty's name but feebly expressed her bountiful nature. Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context There was the baby too, who had never closed an eye all night, but had sat as good as gold, trying to force a large orange into his mouth, and gazing intently at the lights in the chandelier--there he was, sitting up in his mother's lap, staring at the gas without winking, and making indentations in his soft visage with an oyster-shell, to that degree that a heart of iron must have loved him The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context That sort of evidence was as good as gold, and passed current everywhere. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context			going my way? going on going rate Going strong going to tell going, going, gone gol dern gold gold mine of information golden golden handcuffs golden opportunity golly gone gone but not forgotten gone for a burton gone goose gone on gone to meet maker gone with the wind goner good good and good and proper good as done good as gold good as new good bet Good Book good die young good egg Good enough good enough for Good fences make good neighbors good for good for what ails you Good for you! Good golly. Miss Molly! good grief Good grief! Good luck! good many Good men are scarce good old boy good old days good riddance Good riddance! Good seed makes a good crop good sport good talking to you Good things come in small packages			good afternoon Good against evil Good Agricultural and Collection Practice Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition Good Agricultural Practice Good Agricultural Practices Network for Education and Training Good Agricultural Practices Program Good Analytical Practice good and good and good and good and Good and bad good and effectual in law Good and evil Good and evil Good and evil Good and lawful men good and marketable title good and merchantable title good and proper Good and Service Good and Services Good argument Good argument Good article Good article Good article Good article good as done good as gold good as new good as new good as new good as new good as new Good as New Computers Good As You good at good authority Good Automated Laboratory Practices Good Automated Manufacturing Practice Good Bad & Strange Good Beer Guide Good Beer Show Good Behavior Good Behavior Day Good Behaviour good bet Good Birds Don't Fly Away Good bloke Good Book Good Book Good Book Good Book Good Books Good Boys Deserve Fruit Always Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always Good Boys Deserve Fun Always Good Boys Do Fine Always Good breeding

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