good job

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good job

  1. (idiomatic) Well done; congratulations!
    If you hadn't hit that last ball, we would have lost. Good job!

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good job (plural good jobs)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good,‎ job.
    • 1944 March and April, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: VIII—Sir H. N. Gresley”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
      He seemed to share my disappointment, but was kind enough to say, "You made a good job of it and it deserved a better fate," [...].
  2. (idiomatic, British) a good thing.
    It's a good job that he was there to catch the vase when I dropped it.
    Good job Sarah isn't scared of spiders: I don't think I could cope without someone to remove them.

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