good and
adv1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.
2
Idiomatic, Used as an intensifier Very; plenty; exceptionally; quite, utterly.
- good and ready
- I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!
3 more examples
- As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island:
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.1946, H. L. Mencken, American Mercury:
- [S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it.2008, Nancy Huston, Fault Lines, →ISBN: