do good

Meaning

1. Editorial59% of films

   To do well: to perform a task successfully, get on successfully, or behave in a satisfactory way (informal use of good for well).

2. Oxford35% of films

   to have a useful effect; to help sb

In the movies · 21

• I'll do good. You'll see, Lee. I'll make it up to you.Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
• You are a good man. Someone will love you, whoever you are.National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• I wanted to do good.The Godfather Part III1990
• Did I do good?Sing 22021
• You do? Good.Little Miss Sunshine2006
• Be happy, do good.Hillbilly Elegy2020
• What do you do good?Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire2009
• You do GoodFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019

Learn it in full scenes

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
  • Lee Meets Jack Hock
  • Lee Asks to Be Paid in Cash
  • Lee Tells Jack Her Secret

From the same entry

• as good as
• 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
• for good
• to the good
• up to no good
• it's an ill wind

More idioms

• don't make me laugh
• find fault
• get your feet wet
• go downhill
• go figure
• have bigger fish to fry
• laugh in face
• on the off chance
• out of action
• out of thin air
• that'll be the day
• within reach