much good may it do someone
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[edit]From do good.
Phrase
[edit]- Used to express the hope that something will work out well for someone, often with the implication that, while hoping for the best, the speaker does not expect much.
- Synonym: good for someone
- 1843, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit:
- “Mr. Chufiey is a lyin' down,” said Mrs. Gamp, returning, " and much good may it do him, Mr. Chuzzlewit, which harm it can't and good it may, be joyful!"
- 1882, Albion Winegar Tourgée, Our Continent, page 722:
- Your husband may keep his twenty thousand pounds, and much good may it do him!
- 1884, Sarah Tytler, “Beauty and the Beast: A Modern Romance”, in Good Words, volume 25, page 832:
- Take your own way, and much good may it do you. But remember, if you are not back before the next train, I shall start with Soames, and my dutiful grand-children may find their way back to me as they can.
- 2015, Edgar Watson Howe, The Story of a Country Town:
- The pin-headed woman who regards her thin-witted husband as the greatest man in the world, is happy, and much good may it do her.
- 2022, Joan Aiken, Jane Austen, Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken, page 832:
- 'And much good may it do me,' returned Emma with a sigh, 'since she, or rather her new husband, has cast me off.'
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