"Well and Good"

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When someone says, "That's all well and good, but... " does it ever mean that anything is well or good?

Please replace with "That's irrelevant bullshit, and..."

And what's with the adverb/adjective combination? "That's all wonderfully and super, but..."

... no, YOU'RE fattest.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

well is an adjective! Or at least it can be.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

well point.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

well well well.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a silly phrase but it was a boon to pun-inclined headline writers during the George Orwell centenary year...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Infinitely worse is: "I for one..." WELL WHO ELSE WOULD YOU BE SPEAKING/OPINING FOR UNLESS YOU WERE A SCHIZOPHRENIC? "I for two; myself and my big rabbit friend Harvey here..."?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 6 August 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If a magazine had a feature on a former "To The Manor Born" and "The Good Life" actress forcing people to move along by harassing them *and* an article about the aforementioned writer, they could advertise the fact on the cover by saying

Keith Harries and Orwell.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it does mean it's all well and good, it means "be that as it may". yes it sort of means that's irrelevant but not incorrect.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Infinitely worse is: "I for one..." WELL WHO ELSE WOULD YOU BE SPEAKING/OPINING FOR UNLESS YOU WERE A SCHIZOPHRENIC? "I for two; myself and my big rabbit friend Harvey here..."?

i always thought "for one" here means "as one example of the many who share the opinion"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and "that's well and good" is sometimes used as in "that's all well and good for the purpose of something but in this situation it's bullshit" ??

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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