Good Thing

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Good Thing - (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised.

1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews".

2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing".

3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "Yacc is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load.

Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.

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No references found			However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context You'll never really dislike me so long as I give you the opportunity to get off a good thing now and then. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context --Not riddle enough to scare human love from it, not solution enough to put to sleep human wisdom:--a humanly good thing was the world to me to-day, of which such bad things are said! Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context			goober Gooch crucible Gooch, George Peabody Gooch, Sir William Goochland County Good Good and Evil Good Ear for Music Good Earth, The Good Feelings, Era Good Friday good geometry Good Hope, Cape Good Hope, Cape of Good Joe good morning stairs Good Neighbor Policy Good Offices good oil Good Sam Recreational Vehicle Club Good Samaritan good seamanship Good Shepherd Good Soldier Schweik Good Thief Good Thing Good Times virus Good, James Isaac Good-Deeds Goodale State Park Goodall, Jane Goode, John Goode, John Paul Goode, Wilson Goodell, William Goodenough's Island Goodhue County Goodhue, Benjamin Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor Gooding County Goodlad, John Goodman Goodman duckbill loader Goodman loader Goodman, Benny Goodman, Morris Goodman, Nelson Goodman, Paul Goodnaturedness goodness of fit Goodnight, Charles			Good Shot good show! good show! good show! good show! Good Soldier Schweik good sort good speller good spirit good sport Good Sports Are Winners Good Standard of Hygiene Good Standard of Living good standing Good Start Breakfast Club Good Start, Grow Smart Good Storage and Distribution Practice good story Good Student Discount Good Stuff to Know Good Surgeon Guide Good Swartz Brown & Berns good talking to you Good taste Good Team Player Good Team Player Good Team Player good temper Good Thief Good Thing Good Thing and Bad Thing Good things come in small packages Good things come to him who waits Good Things Utah good thinking good thinking good thinking good thinking Good This Month Good This Month Order Good This Month Orders Good Through Good Through Order Good Through Orders Good through/until date order Good Til Cancelled Order Good Til Cancelled Orders Good Till Cancelled Good Till Cancelled Order Good Till Cancelled Orders Good Till Day good time good time Good Time Boys Good Time Boys Good Time Girls Good Time Interval Good Time Oldies Good Time to Buy

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