good value
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good value (plural good values)
- Something that is well worth the money paid for it.
- Synonym: value for money
- it's not cheap, it's good value
- 1910, Iowa Department of Agriculture, The Iowa Year Book of Agriculture[1], volume 10, page 475:
- It is no matter how high-priced a sheep is, just so he is a good value.
- 1960, The Illustrated London News, volume 237, number 1, page 202:
- Moreover, today we meet Bridie in theatre far too seldom : he is a better value, and more likely to live in record, than the modish mayflies of our stage.
- 1973, The Autocar, volume 138, page 11:
- She is a good value at £594 in standard form, but a suitable 40 hp engine and a trailer would raise the total price to well over £1000 (Microplas Ltd., Homewood Road, Mitcham, Surrey).
- 1983, The Month, Issues 1384-1395, page 66,
- Audiences fill theatres where his work is staged. He is a good value. He never fails, which is not to say he always succeeds.
- (UK, Australia, idiomatic, slang) Someone who is friendly and easy-going.
- 2007, Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land[2], page 95:
- He is a good value—earnest, sympathetic, solid to the bone and not overcomplicated—just the way you′d hope your undertaker would be.
- (UK, Australia, idiomatic, slang) Someone who is funny or witty.
- 2003, David Philip Reiter, Interactive Publications, Liars and Lovers, page 79:
- ‘Not anymore,’ she said, quickly ‘But he′s worth his weight in gold at a party. He always has something to say, and most of the time it′s interesting. That reflects well on me for inviting him.’
‘He is a good value.’
- 2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Hugh Grant is always good value, and Martin Freeman and Joanna Page do very well as a couple who fall in love while working as stand-ins for what is apparently an expensively produced hardcore porn film.
- 2010, Gyles Brandreth, Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime, unnumbered page:
- Friday, 17 July 1981
Yesterday: morning with Germaine Greer – she is a good value, stimulating company and completely ridiculous: for the original feminist she is hilariously man-mad.
See also[edit]
(well worth the price):
(good company):
- crack (good crack)