as good as

Meaning

1. Editorial55% of films

   Equal to someone or something else in quality, skill, or worth.

2. Oxford30% of films

   very nearly

3. Editorial10% of films

   Even though someone or something is good, conceding that before a contrast or limit.

In the movies · 71

• You can't help your friends. They're as good as dead, Wolverine.X22003
• Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway.The Lion King1994
• I told her I would, and she as good as told me to get out.Saboteur1942
• As good as thatEyes Wide Shut1999
• They're as good as gone.A History of Violence2005
• who was as good as me.Cruella2021
• As good as your word, huh?Battlestar Galactica: The Plan2009
• feel quite as good as, uh…The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run2020

From the same entry

• as good as it gets
• a good few
• be good to go
• good and
• good for you, sb, them
• all to the good
• be no good
• do good
• for good
• to the good
• up to no good
• it's an ill wind

More idioms

• get a grip
• make day
• make sense of
• the last straw
• be in on
• be on the lookout
• get down to business
• in a way
• a walk in the park
• all the same
• catch red handed
• cost an arm and a leg