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GOOD AS GOLD

Specialty Definition: GOOD AS GOLD

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Literature

Good as Gold Thoroughly good. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang

Adverbial phrase. Source: New Zealand English. Definition: You're all set. Context: A friendly comment used among peers and close friends and sometimes strangers that a person may feel comfortable with. Social Source: The Kiwis. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: GOOD AS GOLD

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior; above par; nice, fine; genuine; (true).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GOOD AS GOLD

Specialty definitions using "GOOD AS GOLD": KEELEYSword-makers. (references)

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Modern Usage: GOOD AS GOLD

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Good As Gold (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: GOOD AS GOLD

Expression using "GOOD AS GOLD": as good as gold. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GOOD AS GOLD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

good as gold

5

good as gold casino

3
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Modern Translation: GOOD AS GOLD

Language Translations for "GOOD AS GOLD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

παιδί μάλαμα (a child as good as gold). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

olyan jó (as good as gold, too good to be true), mint egy kis angyal (as good as gold), mint egy (as good as gold, to feel like a boiled rag, to work like blazes), mint az angyal (as good as gold), jó magaviseletű (as good as gold, orderly, well-behaved), (aces, as good as gold, bitching, conceit, fair, fair enough, fine, good, gorge, guileless, have a good grounding in sg, have a good pair of legs, have a long wind, have good legs, have good walking legs, hunky-dory, it's good to be alive, jake, mind-blowing, nice, okay, physiognomist, plump, sniffy, that's not good enough, to be all aces, to be well connected), angyal (angel, as good as gold, cherub, cherubim). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodgay asay oldgay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

bun cã pâinea caldã (as good as gold). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GOOD AS GOLD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-g-l-o-o-o-s"

-3 letters: googols, ogdoads.

-4 letters: googol, ogdoad.

-5 letters: dados, dagos, dodos, doggo, gaols, glads, goads, goals, gogos, golds, goods, loads, logos, soldo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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