What does well mean

Crossword clues for well

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

well

I.adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a better/greater/deeper understanding

▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of the overseas market.

a bit better/older/easier etc

▪ I feel a bit better now.

a good/better option

▪ Renting a house may be a better option than buying.

a little more/better/further etc

▪ We’ll have to wait a little longer to see what happens.

a shade better/quicker/faster etc

▪ The results were a shade better than we expected.

against your better judgment (=even though you think your action might be wrong)

▪ I lent him the money, against my better judgment.

alive and well

▪ Apparently he’s alive and well and living in Brazil.

alive and well

▪ Christianity is alive and well in Asia.

are better left unsaid (=it is better not to mention them)

▪ Some things are better left unsaid.

artesian well

as well it might

▪ This caused a few gasps, as well it might.

at best...at worst

▪ Choosing the right software can be time-consuming at best and confusing or frustrating at worst.

be better off doing sth (=used to give advice or an opinion)

▪ He’d be better off starting with something simpler.

be well in with (=be very friendly with them)

▪ You have to be well in with the directors if you want to get promotion here.

be well into middle age (=be obviously middle-aged, probably at least 50)

▪ Most of the people there were well into middle age.

be (well) worth the effort (=used to say that something is worth doing even though it is hard)

▪ It’s a difficult place to get to, but it's well worth the effort.

be well/badly off for sth

▪ The school’s fairly well off for books these days.

be well/extensively/poorly etc documented

▪ It is well documented that men die younger than women.

best endeavours

▪ Despite our best endeavours, we couldn’t start the car.

best man

best practice

better nature (=his feelings of kindness)

▪ I tried appealing to his better nature but he wouldn’t agree to help us.

better off

▪ She’ll be about £50 a week better off.

better or worse

▪ I wasn’t sure whether his behaviour was getting better or worse.

book (well) in advance

▪ There are only 20 places, so it is essential to book well in advance.

came across...well (=seemed to have good qualities)

▪ I don’t think I came across very well in the interview.

came off...well

▪ The performance on the first night came off pretty well.

can well imagine (=can easily imagine)

▪ I can well imagine how delighted you were with the news.

clearly/well defined

▪ The tasks will be clearly defined by the tutor.

come off second best (=lose a game or competition, or not be as successful as someone else)

come over...well (=seem to have good qualities)

▪ He didn’t come over very well in the interview.

cook sth well/thoroughly (=until it has definitely cooked for a long enough time)

▪ Beans should always be cooked well.

cope well

▪ Most schools coped well with the change.

curiosity gets the better of sb/overcomes sb (=makes you do something that you are trying not to do)

▪ Curiosity got the better of me and I opened her diary.

damn well

▪ I’ll damn well do as I please.

deserve better (also deserve a better deal) (= deserve to be treated better or to be in a better situation)

▪ They treated him badly at work and I thought he deserved better.

do well/badly in a testBritish English, do well/badly on a test American English

▪ I didn’t do very well in the first part of the test.

do well/badly in an examBritish English, do well/badly on an exam AmEː

▪ Maria always did well in her exams at school.

do well/badly in an examination

▪ He did well in his examinations, and went on to study at MIT.

eat well (=have enough food, or have good food)

▪ The people work hard, but they eat well.

fall far/a long way/well short of sth

▪ Facilities in these schools fall far short of the standards required.

far better/easier etc

▪ The new system is far better than the old one.

▪ There are a far greater number of women working in television than twenty years ago.

fit...well

▪ His clothes did not fit him very well.

for reasons best known to sb (=used when you do not understand someone’s behaviour)

▪ For reasons best known to herself, she decided to sell the house.

go well/smoothly/fine etc

▪ The party went well.

▪ Everything’s going fine at the moment.

good intentions/the best (of) intentions (=intentions to do something good or kind, especially when you do not succeed in doing it)

▪ He thinks the minister is full of good intentions that won’t be carried out.

good/best mate

▪ He’s good mates with John.

greater/better protection

▪ The law should give greater protection to victims.

handles well/badly

▪ The car handles well, even on wet roads.

heaps better/bigger etc (=much better, bigger etc)

higher/better

▪ Workers demanded higher pay.

hope for the best (=hope that a situation will end well when there is a risk of things going wrong)

▪ Liam decided to ignore the warning and just hope for the best.

how best (=the best way)

▪ advice on how best to invest your money

how much better/nicer/easier etc

▪ I was surprised to see how much better she was looking.

▪ How much better life would be if we returned to the values of the past!

is best known for (=people are most likely to be familiar with)

▪ Hepburn is best known for her roles in classic films such as ‘My Fair Lady’.

It’s well worth

▪ It’s well worth getting there early if you want a good seat.

judge it best/better to do sth (=think that something is the best thing to do)

▪ Robert wanted to go and help him, but judged it best to stay where he was.

judge it best/better to do sth (=think that something is the best thing to do)

▪ Robert wanted to go and help him, but judged it best to stay where he was.

knew better than to

▪ Eva knew better than to interrupt one of Mark’s jokes.

know damn well

▪ You know damn well what I’m talking about.

know perfectly well/full well/only too well

▪ He knew full well that what he was doing was dangerous.

know perfectly well/full well/only too well

▪ He knew full well that what he was doing was dangerous.

know perfectly well/full well/only too well

▪ He knew full well that what he was doing was dangerous.

know...well

▪ I don’t know him very well.

leave well (enough) alone (=not change something that is satisfactory)

▪ In economic matters, they should leave well alone.

like best (=like most of all)

▪ The time I like best is the evening when it’s cool.

little more/better etc (than sth)

▪ His voice was little more than a whisper.

live well (=have plenty of food, clothes etc)

▪ They earn enough money to live well.

make sth the best/worst/most expensive etc

▪ Over 80,000 people attended, making it the biggest sporting event in the area.

may well ask

▪ ‘What’s all the noise?’ ‘You may well ask.’

may well (=it is fairly likely)

▪ Your job may well involve some travelling .

means well (=intends to be helpful or kind, even if it does not seem like that)

▪ He may sound a bit rude at times, but he means well.

meant it for the best (=wanted to be helpful, although my actions had the wrong effect)

▪ I wasn’t criticizing you, I really meant it for the best.

might well ask

▪ ‘What do they hope to achieve?’ ‘You might well ask.’

might well (=it is fairly likely)

▪ This might well be her last public performance .

money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money)

▪ The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent.

move on to higher/better things (=get a better job or social position – used humorously)

▪ Jeremy’s leaving the company to move on to higher things.

much better/greater/easier etc

▪ Henry’s room is much bigger than mine.

▪ These shoes are much more comfortable.

much the best/most interesting etcBritish English

▪ It’s much the best way to do it.

of the worst/best etc kind

▪ This is hypocrisy of the worst kind.

Oh, well,

▪ Oh, well, never mind.

oil well

prevention is better than cureBritish English, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure American English (= used to say that it is better to prevent illness than to cure it)

prevention is better than cure (=it is better to stop something bad from happening than to remove the problem once it has happened)

▪ You know what they say, prevention is better than cure.

read sth well/accurately (=understand something correctly)

▪ He had accurately read the mood of the nation.

reads well

▪ I think in general the report reads well.

remember well (=thoroughly and completely)

▪ I remember so well my first day there.

safe and sound/well (=unharmed, especially after being in danger)

▪ The missing children were found safe and sound.

sb is old enough to know better (=used when you think someone should behave more sensibly)

▪ He’s old enough to know better, but he went and did it anyway!

sb’s best clothes

▪ They wore their best clothes for the photograph.

sb’s best friend (=the friend you like the most)

▪ Fiona was her best friend.

sb’s best guess (=one that you think is most likely to be right)

▪ My best guess is that it will take around six months.

sb’s best handwriting

▪ In his best handwriting, he wrote, 'Happy Father’s Day, Dad'.

second best

▪ Allie was the second best shooter on the rifle team.

second best

▪ I’m not going to settle for second best.

sell well/badly (=be bought by a lot of people, or very few people)

▪ Anti-age creams always sell well.

serve...well

▪ Her talent for organization should serve her well.

settle for second best

▪ I’m not going to settle for second best.

should know better

▪ It’s just prejudice from educated people who should know better.

significantly better/greater/worse etc

▪ Delia’s work has been significantly better this year.

sleep well

▪ I haven’t been sleeping well lately.

slightly higher/lower/better/larger etc

▪ January’s sales were slightly better than average.

speak well/highly of sb (=say good things about them)

▪ He always spoke very highly of Marge.

start badly/well/slowly etc

▪ Any new exercise program should start slowly.

suit sb well

▪ Our new house suits us very well.

take a turn for the worse/better

▪ Two days after the operation, Dad took a turn for the worse.

tears well up in sb’s eyes (=tears come into their eyes)

▪ She broke off, feeling the tears welling up in her eyes.

the best available

▪ We use the best available technology.

the best means

▪ Is this really the best means of achieving our goal?

the best plan British English (= the best thing to do)

▪ I think the best plan is to take the train.

the best route

▪ Let's look at the map and work out the best route.

the best way

▪ Doing the job is often regarded as the best way of learning the job.

the best/greatest etc that/who ever lived (=the best, greatest etc who has been alive at any time)

▪ He’s probably the best journalist who ever lived.

the best/perfect/ideal solution

▪ Locking people in prison is not necessarily the ideal solution.

the best/tallest etc in the world

▪ We want to become the best team in the world.

the best/worst kind

▪ Not knowing what had happened to her was the worst kind of torture.

the best/worst part

▪ The worst part was having to work even when it was raining.

the very best/latest/worst etc

▪ We only use the very best ingredients.

the world’s best/tallest etc

▪ It is the world’s largest car manufacturer.

things go well/badly etc

▪ If things went well, we would double our money in five years.

▪ How did things go?

time sth well/badly etc

▪ Keith timed the pass well.

▪ a beautifully timed shot

to (the best of) my recollection (=used when you are unsure if you remember correctly)

▪ To the best of my recollection, she drives a Mercedes.

▪ Noone, to my recollection, gave a second thought to the risks involved.

try your best/hardest (=make as much effort as possible)

▪ Try your best to block out other distractions.

turn out well/badly/fine etc

▪ It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right.

well above (=much higher than)

▪ The salaries we offer are well above average.

well adapted

▪ flowers which are well adapted to harsh winters

well below (=much worse than the normal standard)

▪ Tom’s spelling is well below average .

well camouflaged

▪ The strain she was under was well camouflaged by skilful make-up.

well deserved

▪ The restaurant has a well deserved reputation for excellent fish.

well developed

▪ plants with well developed root systems

well fitted

▪ Elinor is well fitted to be the sales manager.

Well I never!

▪ Well I never! I wouldn’t have thought she was that old!

well in advance

▪ Could you distribute copies well in advance of the meeting?

well lit

▪ The porch is always well lit at night.

well looked after

▪ You could tell that the horse had been well looked after.

well past

▪ a pot of yoghurt well past its sell-by date

well qualified

▪ As a former footballer, he is well qualified to talk about the game.

well received (=they said it was good)

▪ The film was well received by critics .

well respected

▪ They were well respected in their communities.

well rid (=it is good that he has gone)

▪ He was a bully, and we’re well rid of him .

well thought of

▪ Her work is well thought of in academic circles.

well underway

▪ The project is already well underway.

well worth

▪ The film is well worth seeing.

well

▪ Sorry, I’m not putting it very well.

well

▪ The majority of workers are well treated.

well/badly etc designed

▪ a badly designed office

well/badly run

▪ The hotel is well-run and extremely popular.

well/badly/beautifully etc proportioned

▪ Arnold’s perfectly proportioned body

▪ a beautifully proportioned room

well/badly/poorly etc written

▪ The article is very well written.

well/elegantly/badly etc shod

▪ The children were well shod and happy.

well/fully/acutely aware

▪ They were well aware that the company was losing money.

well/fully/inadequately etc prepared

▪ Luckily, we were well prepared for the storm.

well/poorly/fully etc equipped

▪ a well equipped hospital

well...sunk

▪ A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up into the kitchen.

well/widely/highly publicized (=receiving a lot of attention)

▪ His visit was highly publicized.

wish sb well (=say that you hope that good things will happen to someone)

▪ My friends wished me well in my new job.

wishing well

work out well/badly

▪ Financially, things have worked out well for us.

wrap up warm/well

▪ Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

aware

▪ I suspect we're both well aware who telephoned Colin Fairfax-Vane in May, claiming to be Beatrix.

▪ Television news directors and producers are well aware of this fascination, and almost universally favor the idea of televising actual trials.

▪ Because - he was well aware - most people thought he was something called a Nice Bloke.

▪ As he was well aware, the timing for the move had been chosen with care.

▪ Aristotle and his Athenian contemporaries were well aware that some barbarians were very different in physical appearance from themselves.

▪ As all Tuesday regulars are well aware, space is always at a premium.

▪ There is every reason to suspect that ancient glass-makers were well aware of this.

▪ When we first met her we were well aware of how cheerful and sweet she is.

known

▪ There are at least five well known approaches: 1 Tell and sell.

▪ My employer is Heather Wilkinson a well known caterer.

▪ The author is one of New Zealand's well known spinners and weavers who has an extensive knowledge of the craft.

▪ He was articled to Ernest Proud, a well known firm in which he was later to become a partner.

▪ Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years.

▪ The opening was a well known variation of the Ruy Lopez.

▪ Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s.

▪ It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do.

■ VERB

advise

▪ Both sides would be well advised to check what help is actually available from the plaintiff's local authority.

▪ Similarly, students interested in technical fields would be well advised to take physics.

▪ Probably Anselm would have been well advised to comply.

▪ It was not well advised of Oliver to make jokes before her.

▪ The beginner would be well advised to copy them out in open score with the necessary transpositions.

▪ An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims.

▪ You are well advised, when the Whitney Biennial comes along, to be sure to remember your reading glasses.

▪ Solicitors would be well advised to take heed.

develop

▪ Only when cultures are well developed is there enough social trust to support commercial and governmental institutions.

▪ These four key elements are well developed and widely shared within the research communities of every natural and applied science.

▪ The unfertilised egg cell began to divide to produce embryos that sometimes developed well.

▪ In general, work experience historically has been the least well developed component of career academies.

▪ When rates are discounted in this way by substantial amounts, bad feeling and discontent may well develop on the site.

▪ He could tell the difference between reality and fantasy Language, under-standing, and logic were well developed.

▪ The occipital bone is well developed, without protruding too much.

▪ Constraint knowledge is well developed and influences most specific opinions.

▪ You think you are not clever because you didn't do well at school.

▪ The implication: one does well to regard oneself as a legendary figure.

▪ Tell us what you think and well do our best every month to make sure the magazine delivers what you need.

▪ Both banks and insurance companies can do well in a low-interest-rate world because their cost of funds will be low.

▪ They will do well to eke out a draw.

▪ Carlton does well to keep up with the drop.

▪ Haruo Arima, the Communists' chief campaign strategist, believes his party could do well.

▪ It is very sensitive to calcium and does not do well in alkaline or hard water.

document

▪ Catches were well documented at the time and proceeds from sales were distributed to the poor of Doncaster.

▪ If there are conflicts and they are well documented, let them stand.

▪ The overtly sectarian, aggressively anti-intellectual tactics of the party between 1928 and 1931 are well documented.

▪ The correlation between infant mortality and fertility has not been well documented.

▪ Conflicts between the aspirations of individuals and the objectives of organizations have been well documented.

▪ Its reliability and performance improvements are well documented.

▪ Nevertheless, the problems of this ultimate in fixed track systems are particularly well documented.

▪ The decision process for loan approval was well documented and of limited complexity.

equip

▪ But it's also practical, roomy and well equipped.

▪ After all, such lopsided enthusiasm indicates that you feel well equipped to tell judges how to do their jobs.

▪ Its state regiments are well equipped and lavishly uniformed in a mixture of red and blue.

▪ On-site treatment may be a new venture for many companies, and one that they are not well equipped to handle.

▪ She has been in private use in Scandinavia only, and is very well equipped.

▪ It also is open to question how well equipped courts are to make this kind of determination-about the workings of economic markets.

▪ It is well equipped, and warrior for warrior better than almost any other.

▪ Furthermore, family stories, including myths, are well equipped to lull us.

establish

▪ Fifty years later Fujitsu was well established as a supplier to Siemens of mainframe computers.

▪ The power of feedback to motivate improved performance is well established.

▪ Many Northern Ireland companies already have well established exporting links.

▪ Greater is the irony that twenty years earlier the open mind for this view was well established in economic circles.

▪ A taste for the exotic was already well established in the mid-nineteenth century and photography gave it a new boost.

▪ All of these craters were well established by 1965.

▪ It is well established that a director is a fiduciary.

▪ Men well established in state security.

▪ Hope all goes well with you.

▪ But if all goes well, it is projected to climb to 1 million a year to meet rising worldwide demand.

▪ She had gone well over the half-hour.

▪ But his contributions go well beyond that.

▪ He couldn't very well go up to him and accuse him of giving old Mr Schofield a fatal heart attack.

▪ When all goes well during this time, a gradual strengthening of ties between parent and infant occurs.

▪ And if both went well, he might acquire a momentum of success.

▪ If all goes well, Wells Fargo may even invite gourmet coffee chains or copy-center services into its branches.

inform

▪ In modem history as it affected his class he was well informed as ever, and had a memory overflowing with detail.

▪ Innkeepers Lynnette and Bob Kahn were delightful and well informed about the area.

▪ In an area where the costs of being well informed are high compared with the benefits, this is not surprising.

▪ He was well informed on civil and constitutional law.

▪ There should be a collective understanding of the issues, so that the judgements involved in decision-making can be well informed.

▪ The product is reasonably well written and they appear to be well informed about local issues.

▪ In the effort to distribute accurate information, keeping journalists and politicians well informed is absolutely crucial.

▪ His father was a quiet man, but he was surprisingly well informed on current issues.

keep

▪ It's haunted, and I would keep well away from it.

▪ Some are dilapidated, some well kept.

▪ I keep well out of her way.

▪ All the same, the ground pigeons were careful to keep well under cover.

▪ If they keep you, they might as well keep me.

▪ Like Edam, Teifi is waxed and keeps well.

▪ He had to be kept well away from her and then defeated.

know

▪ Officially he had malaria, but his battle with Aids was well known.

▪ This relative of the dogwood family, whose trees are well known farther south, here creeps along just under the soil.

▪ Atkins is well known in East Anglia, having previously captained Ipswich Town.

▪ It was well known that Victoria was interested in our father.

▪ Many accidents are caused by sports or by other activities whose risk are well known.

▪ Moreover as you well know such traditional managerial perspectives are reinforced by traditional organizational arrangements.

▪ This passage was already well known to Ash scholars and had been extensively quoted.

▪ It is a lesson most trial lawyers know well.

pay

▪ Might as well pay attention, he reminded himself; it's your career they're talking about.

▪ You are well paid and well respected.

▪ But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining.

▪ Sousa paid well and attracted some of the greatest performers of the era.

▪ Feeders are small fry, though they're well paid if the ransom's high.

▪ Yet it is work she likes, and she is getting paid well for it.

▪ I wouldn't say so, it's a pretty cushy job, driving a nice car around, being paid well.

▪ Besides, they are already well paid.

perform

▪ Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.

▪ This propellant combination performs well and permits a fairly compact vehicle design.

▪ Chairman Nicholas Hood described the regulated business as performing well, with its waste management company boosting profits to £3.2m.

▪ To be sure, not all construction shares are performing well.

▪ In response to imposed assessment for selection and evaluation, the teacher will prepare children to perform well.

▪ Organizations need some degree of structure to perform well.

▪ In comparison to those sectors, supermarkets performed well year on year.

▪ On top of her usual lack of self-confidence, Eddie feels more than usual pressure to perform well during this game.

place

▪ Future food technologists will be well placed to create concentrated foodstuffs which rectify the known deficiencies in the diet.

▪ The cost of the abortion plus the cost of the travel may well place abortion beyond the reach of many young women.

▪ He was well placed to comment.

▪ By the end of the 32/33 season, the club was well placed to progress from friendlies to Junior League soccer.

▪ North Shields is very well placed in relation to the North Sea grounds.

▪ Analysis of terms of contract and of seniority by ethnic groups suggests that minorities are significantly less well placed within the profession.

▪ These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.

▪ The fitments will need to be placed well above and beyond the sides of the window to give maximum freedom of movement.

play

▪ Luckily we are playing well enough to not be under much pressure at all lately.

▪ I just didn't play well.

▪ I needed to focus on playing well.

▪ Many golfers give themselves no chance of playing well because they ruin the swing with a poor takeaway.

▪ The team played well in the first half.

▪ Such thinking comes from a belief that swing technique has nothing whatsoever to do with playing well.

▪ And it plays well off-road, thanks to Control Trac with settings aimed at all surfaces and weathers.

receive

▪ Already well received by selected retail outlets, it is being used for window and in-store displays.

▪ The message was well received by commissioners.

▪ Scarman's position in 1981 was well received by many political commentators.

▪ Midwinter ski conditions prevail most times here, since the area receives well more than 200 inches of natural snow yearly.

▪ McLaren well receive continued supplies of Honda engines for testing purposes through to the end of the year.

▪ In the political and economic environment of the 1970s these sentiments were often well received by both national and local public officials.

▪ The plenary sessions on Friday and Saturday were less well received.

▪ It was well received by a fairly small house.

remember

▪ I well remember her giving an excellent day course to the Society trainers on relaxation.

▪ Having used my running legs once, I remembered well the sensation of freedom seized.

▪ I well remember the excitement of seeing the very first breeding pair on Yell back in the 1950s.

▪ Mike well remembers the first check he received made out to Michael Gates Gill &038; Friends, his marketing consultancy.

▪ Jack well remembers his first shift on his own.

▪ His late father Gordon Wood, will be well remembered by an earlier generation.

▪ Stephen Court well remembers the mill, being first run by his great grandfather and later, his grandfather, Frederick Beard.

▪ I well remember during one hot dry summer talking to one grower who was complaining about his poor crop of parsnips.

sell

▪ The book has now appeared in the shops and is selling well.

▪ Particularly lucrative are bands that might sell well to two segments that buy lots of records: country and rock.

▪ The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years.

▪ Many writers tend to work on their personal myths ad nauseam because it sells well and feels so good.

▪ It was a good, sickly time of year, and coffins were selling well.

▪ He was producing boots that sold well but did not wear well.

▪ Swaledale is a traditional cheese of the same era as Wensleydale, which has been revived and is now selling well.

▪ Do certain products and services sell well?

serve

▪ Even business, so well served by Mr Mbeki's government, is becoming unnerved.

▪ For programs affecting the health and safety of the entire population a single average value serves well.

▪ Conservation is not well served by ill-informed arguments.

▪ But I do wonder whether you would be well served by simply liquidating your two brokerage accounts.

▪ In Britain particularly, people don't like serving and don't serve well.

▪ Today, there are more than 1, 058 tech-prep consortia nationwide, serving well over 500, 000 students.

▪ Newport, well served by Moseley and Waters at the line-out and also by their back row, were looking increasingly confident.

▪ This particular map served well in Baja.

sleep

▪ I've not been sleeping well since the house was ransacked, and it's made me very edgy.

▪ None of the Lundbergs slept well last night.

▪ And you're obviously not sleeping well.

▪ Do any of us seriously think that Michael Parks is going to sleep well for the foreseeable future?

▪ Marie had slept well last night: there had been no dreams of violence.

▪ I slept well the night before.

▪ Several babies cried, though Jane slept well.

▪ I seem to have no emotional resilience these days because I am not sleeping well.

spend

▪ If he refers it to the Court of Appeal, Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail.

▪ The money was not always well spent.

▪ At a time when resources are so scarce is this really money well spent?

▪ They see money spent on political campaigns as money well spent.

▪ Although more expensive than the others reviewed here, the extra money is well spent.

▪ Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.

understand

▪ But individualists, while they can perfectly well understand this holist complaint, have not selected an arbitrary stopping-point.

▪ The mechanism behind these phenomena is still not well understood.

▪ Mr. Tom King I have received many such representations and I well understand the depth of feeling on the part of those expressing their concern.

▪ At the present state of the art, unsupervised learning is not well understood and is still the subject of much research.

▪ I said I get a lot of enquiries from frustrated knitters on this point and I can well understand their frustration.

▪ It was a way to make the theory operational in terms of components that were well understood.

▪ I can well understand that many older and less confident people feel comfortable and unthreatened in such places.

▪ Additionally, the mapping procedure is not well understood, and there is no guarantee the system will converge.

work

▪ Such an arrangement works well at the Viking Centre in York.

▪ And I must say, on what I see, your methods seem to work well.

▪ A sound currency is one of the things that people expect from a government that is working well.

▪ Kistiakowsky worked well with Deke Parsons, the naval officer in charge of the Ordnance Division.

▪ Alison and Johnny have a rapport that will work well for their characters.

▪ Such clever agitprop worked well enough to get Clinton elected, but not well enough to make the programs work.

▪ Where the arrangement works well, children obtain a secure substitute home.

▪ When the role of manager came up, three colleagues told management they could work well with Martin.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(get) a bigger/better etc bang for your buck

(just) that little bit better/easier etc

▪ We have put together a few of the most popular itineraries to help make your choice that little bit easier.

(well,) what do you know?

I couldn't wish for a nicer/better etc ...

I must/I'd better be getting along

I'd better mosey along/be moseying along

I/you can't/couldn't ask for a better sth

I/you might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb

a (damn/darned/darn) sight more/better etc

▪ Actually, a damn sight more than from that stiff gherkin Smott.

▪ I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.

▪ If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.

▪ Perhaps not up there with Wilburforce but a damn sight more daring than anything Diana ever did!

▪ The Galapagos finch was a darn sight more valuable than Sandra Willmot.

▪ We were a darned sight better than them.

a damn sight more/better etc

▪ Actually, a damn sight more than from that stiff gherkin Smott.

▪ I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.

▪ Perhaps not up there with Wilburforce but a damn sight more daring than anything Diana ever did!

a darn sight better/harder etc

acquit yourself well/honourably

▪ They did acquit themselves well with heavier strings and a flat pick, but in the main they were seen as fingerpicking guitars.

all the best

▪ Tell him I said goodbye and wish him all the best.

▪ A facility that's said to represent all the best in car manufacturing worldwide.

▪ He wanted to give it all the best that was in him, of which he had more than he needed.

▪ In fact they are regularly seen around all the best joints.

▪ Maybe it was true that the Devil got all the best lines.

▪ On the surface, at least, Bonita Vista has all the best qualities of a racially diverse campus.

▪ The movement has got all the best stories, even if it's a little short on facts.

▪ They came, all the best and noblest, to join the company.

▪ They still kept almost all the best in-state players.

all the better/easier/more etc

▪ He offsets Roberts' operatic evil with a performance that commands all the more notice for its minimalism.

▪ His job was made all the more easier by drivers who hadn't bothered to take measures to stop people like him.

▪ If there is some meat left on the bones, all the better.

▪ It makes it all the more opportune.

▪ Superb defence by Karpov, all the more praiseworthy in that he was now in desperate time trouble.

▪ The dispute was all the more bitter because a prize was at stake.

▪ The inadequacy and treachery of the old leaderships of the working class have made the need all the more imperative.

▪ Weather experts say it was a relatively dry winter which makes the water recovery all the more remarkable.

appeal to sb's better nature/sense of justice etc

as best you can

▪ I'll deal with the problem as best I can.

▪ I cleaned the car up as best I could, but it still looked a mess.

▪ We'll have to manage as best we can without you.

▪ And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression.

▪ I would therefore be grateful if you could refer back to the letter I wrote and respond as best you can.

▪ It is therefore necessary to locate as best we can the final resting place or incidence of the major types of taxes.

▪ Only a proportion of them are successful and the rest must struggle as best they can to obtain mates.

▪ Our culture has no Obon ready-made, but we are filling in as best we can.

▪ Then you gently and gradually work the new feather on, positioning it to match the original plumage as best you can.

▪ We must also imagine our way into myth, as best we can, like actors in a play.

▪ You just have to wait and catch your moment or piece things together as best you can.

at best

▪ At best, sales have been good but not great.

▪ Public transportation is at best limited.

at the best of times

▪ Even at the best of times the roads are dangerous.

▪ A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times, but one of this size ....

▪ But reason told her it was a precarious business at the best of times.

▪ In fact Polanski, unconventional at the best of times, takes us to the limit - and beyond.

▪ It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems.

▪ Listening is a difficult and complex skill at the best of times.

▪ Memory was mischievously selective at the best of times Trivia stuck limpet-like and the useful filtered away.

▪ Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.

▪ The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times.

at your best

▪ At his best, he's one of the most exciting tennis players in the world.

▪ This recording captures Grappelli at his very best.

▪ And if I sometimes see them at their worst, I sometimes see them at their best as well.

▪ Augusta was not at her best yesterday on a drab, grey day.

▪ But like Natalie Merchant, Cerbone is at her best when composing character sketches.

▪ Still, quarterbacks are not at their best when their throwing motion is impeded.

▪ The answer, in brief, is the method of empirical inquiry, at its best the method of science.

▪ The early 1960s showed such policy at its best.

▪ The formal work of the House is often seen at its best in committee.

▪ The Machine is at its best in primaries, but Daley was taking no chances.

at your best/worst/most effective etc

augur well/badly/ill

▪ Enjoyment of one's past job does not augur well for contentment in the role of housewife.

▪ In another development that does not augur well for transatlantic trade, Zoellick formally asked the U.S.

▪ It hardly augurs well - especially as none of them have won an international in Paris.

▪ Such potential augurs well for the 1990s.

▪ That augured well for the day.

▪ That, at least, augured well.

▪ This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.

be (well) versed in sth

▪ An engineer may be well versed in the technique of value engineering; it includes methods of generating the creative discontinuity.

▪ He was also reputed to be well versed in poisons and their antidotes.

▪ Of course, not everyone is well versed in moral philosophy.

▪ The second point is that factory women were well versed in appraising the advantages and disadvantages of additional family members.

▪ William Fannon, the author of this recollection, and Charles Shartle were well versed in shop ways.

▪ You may be versed in necromancy, and steeped in alchemy, and schooled in the ancient cruel arts of your realm.

be all the better for sth

▪ And it was all the better for being hosted by real-deal Alice Cooper rather than fat phoney Phill Jupitus.

▪ And the piece was all the better for it.

▪ My grandmother therefore moulded my life, and I believe I am all the better for it.

▪ Spa towns, though, are all the better for looking somewhat passé and Eaux-Bonnes is more passé than most.

▪ The game at Twickenham today will be all the better for the inclusion of the National Anthem.

▪ Well, a statement like that is all the better for proof, but go on, anyway.

be for the best

▪ Even though I lost my job, I knew it was for the best. It gave me the chance to start again.

▪ After all, it may be for the best.

▪ Anything that spurs creativity behind the bar must be for the best.

▪ He can smell nothing, which is for the best.

▪ I decided to decide that it was for the best.

▪ It may well be for the best.

▪ Maybe it is for the best.

▪ No one has been so heartless as to suggest we skip the picnic, but it is for the best.

▪ Still, perhaps it was for the best.

be on your best behaviour

▪ Dinner was very formal, with everyone on their best behaviour.

▪ And if what Cadfael suspected was indeed true, he had now good reason to be on his best behaviour.

▪ But everyone is on their best behaviour.

▪ So when we arrived hopefully at Loch Hope that morning, I was on my best behaviour.

▪ Use only our own girls and warn them to be on their best behaviour.

be sb's last/only/best hope

▪ Advocates just seem to take it on faith that annexation is the only hope of salvation for this city.

▪ But mad or not, you are my only hope, Meg.

▪ But Thomas Sachs was now her only hope.

▪ I expected to be disappointed, though the letter was now my only hope.

▪ In the long term, Mr Heseltine said that privatisation was the only hope for the industry.

▪ Is he only hoping to make money?

▪ Robert Urquhart was her only hope, her only ally.

▪ That was the only hope I had of reaching the doctor.

be well up in/on sth

▪ But deep inside there was a brooding that was welling up in him.

▪ By eight o'clock, when the first pair was due to tee off, the sun was well up in a clear sky.

be well/clearly/badly signposted

▪ Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248, and is well signposted.

▪ There are well signposted walks, some of them offering views of the snow-topped Alps.

be well/favourably/kindly disposed (to/towards sb/sth)

▪ He said Bonn was favourably disposed to such a conference if it were well prepared.

▪ I think maybe she had seen the television programmes and was favourably disposed.

▪ It is expected that he will be favourably disposed towards the report's proposals.

▪ Jackson was well disposed towards journalists of left-wing sympathies.

▪ The best that can be hoped for, on their behalf, is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them.

▪ The majority were favourably disposed, some were ambivalent and a few highly critical of the messages and their style.

be well/ideally etc placed

▪ But the island that in the prohibition years after 1920 profitably ran the rum trade is well placed for bootlegging cocaine.

▪ By the end of the 32/33 season, the club was well placed to progress from friendlies to Junior League soccer.

▪ Development agencies are well placed to make this point with the authority of people trying to get a job done.

▪ He was well placed to comment.

▪ In short, I knew a lot of management educators and developers and was well placed to include them in my study.

▪ Professional associations would seem to be well placed in terms of expertise and disinterest to carry out this kind of selection.

▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.

▪ These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.

be well/ideally/perfectly positioned

be well/poorly/generously supplied with sth

▪ The lounge was well supplied with ashtrays.

▪ Football stars are well supplied with female groupies.

▪ The markets are well supplied with agricultural produce, and with linens and yarns from the surrounding country.

best before

best dress/shoes/clothes etc

▪ Everyone was in black because their best clothes were for funerals, and everyone danced.

▪ I washed them, then dressed them in their best clothes, but never new ones.

▪ She had her best shoes on, and a new hat.

▪ She had the best dress sense of any girl in Benedict's and a passion for altering the colour of her hair.

▪ The best car, the wittiest put-down, and the best dress.

▪ The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came.

▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.

▪ They would never let you in alone, even though you are wearing your best clothes.

best friend

▪ Caroline and her best friend both had babies within three weeks of each other.

▪ Stuart is just my brother's best friend - I've known him since I was six.

▪ We lived next door to each other when we were kids, and we've been best friends ever since.

▪ After all - the man was one of his best friends, wasn't he?

▪ Although many people would disagree, radio is without doubt the musician's best friend.

▪ Didn't any of his best friends tell him?

▪ He was like a kid who had found a new best friend, and she was it.

▪ He was not allowed to mention the slaughtering to anyone, not even as a special secret between best friends.

▪ I also learned to become my own best friend.

▪ Trials so that her injured best friend Kay Poe could advance.

▪ When Julie had a home problem, her two best friends at work tried to offer advice based on their own experiences.

best of all

▪ You can lose five pounds a week on this diet. And best of all, you never have to feel hungry.

▪ But Black Mountain was often not the best of all possible worlds.

▪ I'd have liked best of all to have stuffed his mouth with hay.

▪ I appeal to all who have ever known this best of all hospitals - fight for Bart's.

▪ Of all the participants Reagan came out best of all.

▪ Oh, but best of all was the chair in which I myself was destined momentarily to sit.

▪ That was the thing he loved best of all: running free.

▪ The Corps was a know-how, can-do outfit, possibly the best of all the outfits that came to town.

best/good/warmest etc wishes

▪ A former miner, Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement.

▪ And while babies are on my mind, my best wishes to Patsy Kensit on the birth of her son.

▪ Meanwhile, may I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for the coming year.

▪ My best wishes to Madame Zborowska and warm greetings to you.

▪ Our best wishes to his family and friends.

▪ She hadn't deserved their kindness, their good wishes - she'd hardly been a boon companion of late.

▪ Spare me your shock and good wishes.

▪ With best wishes for success and prosperity.

best/well/ideally/perfectly etc suited to/for sth

▪ Boar chops are best suited to grilling or sauteing.

▪ If I were a free agent, those are the places I would go, a place best suited for my needs.

▪ It is not however so well suited to an intensive, detailed study of spoken language.

▪ Nevertheless, it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region.

▪ Secondly, the adversary nature of the adjudicative process may not be well suited to this area.

▪ The farmer's wife was well suited to tackling this considerable undertaking.

▪ Use the systems best suited to their talent, both offensively and defensively.

▪ We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.

better (to be) safe than sorry

▪ I think I'll take my umbrella along - better safe than sorry.

▪ Anyway, better safe than sorry.

▪ The overall message of precaution-better safe than sorry-has intuitive appeal.

better Red than dead

better late than never

▪ "The pictures have finally arrived.'' "Well, better late than never.''

▪ While ongoing self-monitoring is urged, it is always better late than never.

better late than never

▪ While ongoing self-monitoring is urged, it is always better late than never.

better luck next time

▪ Ah well, better luck next time, Andy.

▪ And if you didn't win, better luck next time.

▪ Back to the West Indies with it, and better luck next time.

better the devil you know (than the devil you don't)

better yourself

▪ A lot of people are trying to better themselves.

▪ And she feels better herself - after two weeks, her headaches and tiredness have gone.

▪ He doesn't criticize the vice-president marketing's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself.

▪ I couldn't have done better myself.

▪ I teach them to better themselves.

▪ It is a way in which diversity and the desire to better oneself can be accommodated.

▪ She would do anything to better herself.

▪ Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.

better/harder/worse etc still

▪ And 245 specialty stock funds that focus on particular industries did better still, averaging a 6. 5 percent gain.

▪ But perhaps the early evening was better still?

▪ He didn't talk because he was afraid of losing the pole or, worse still, falling in.

▪ I started to hunt for a cheap restaurant or, better still, a snack shop.

▪ I thought that it would soon pass, and it did - for you to work harder still.

▪ Or better still, make a real talent show instead.

▪ Or better still, there was the village school practically next door!

▪ With hindsight, it would have better still to lock in a few more gains.

bloody well

▪ He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.

▪ I bloody well did, that's who.

▪ If there was a boat to rock, she'd bloody well rock it.

▪ It's encouraging them all to bloody well abuse the system so it is.

▪ M' lud, we bloody well hope so.

▪ They should bloody well have stuck around till we turned up.

▪ You see what we've bloody well done?

bode well/ill (for sb/sth)

▪ The results of the opinion poll do not bode well for the Democrats.

▪ Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things.

▪ Somehow, it bodes well for the couture.

▪ The evening had, on reflection, never boded well.

▪ Things had connected, falling into a new shape - a shape that bode well for the future.

▪ Those numbers bode well for the Raiders.

▪ Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.

▪ Word on the street is that Sub Pop refused the new Friends' second album, which may not bode well.

▪ Yet, conservation biologists have begun to wonder if these long-hoped-for changes bode well for the land.

bring out the best/worst in sb

▪ Ingram always seems to bring out the best in his players.

▪ And Vince was obviously a great coach; he brought out the best in his team and whoever played him.

▪ But the Washington Wizards have a way of bringing out the best in their opponents.

▪ But, says Markert, there is something about one-way communication that can also bring out the worst in people.

▪ Campaigns seem to bring out the worst in Bob Dole.

▪ It brings out the best in us.

▪ Maybe something like they tend to bring out the best in us.

▪ So, to bring out the best in your cooking make sure you use the purest soy sauce, Kikkoman Soy Sauce.

▪ Yet it was not an unsuccessful attempt to bring out the best in his audience.

carefully/well/badly thought-out

▪ But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines.

▪ Each section is well thought-out and presented with a good number of diagrams and chromatograms.

▪ It is here that the value of well thought-out objectives can be seen.

▪ The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well.

come off best/better/worst etc

▪ Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst.

▪ Bullock comes off best because her complaining seems so valid.

▪ His foster-child comes off best, but in addition each of two nurses receives a tenth of his estate.

▪ It may seem, so far, that in terms of clearly defined benefits, the client comes off best out of the deal.

▪ Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider.

▪ The lightning, it seemed to Lydia, had undoubtedly come off best in that encounter.

▪ The problem is that history sometimes comes off better.

couldn't be better/worse/more pleased etc

discretion is the better part of valour

do better

▪ Harris argued that the economy is doing better than it was five years ago.

▪ I was convinced that many of the students could have done better if they'd tried.

▪ If you are saving 5 percent of your income each year, you're doing better than most people.

▪ Mark ran the distance in 30 minutes in the fall, but we're hoping he'll do better this season.

▪ Some roses do better in different types of soil.

▪ The British champion has completed the course in three minutes -- let's see if his Canadian rival can do better.

▪ We did better than we expected.

▪ Alamaro and Patrick think they can do better.

▪ Incumbents who vote against new regulations, paperwork and taxes -- usually conservatives -- do better on the scorecard.

▪ It leads to a lethargy I think we do better without.

▪ Some may do better than our scenario represents.

▪ Surely we can do better for people with mental problems and their families?

▪ The index did better than the broader market.

▪ We can do better than that now.

▪ We need to do better than that, and we can.

do well by sb

▪ He's left home, but he still does well by his kids.

▪ Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur.

do your best

▪ But I did my best to feed them both.

▪ He wanted to do his best the first time he performed, and knew he was not in peak condition.

▪ Like Truman two decades earlier, Humphrey did his best to overcome the severe handicap of a badly split party.

▪ Once there, Drachenfels will do his best to isolate the crystal-wielding characters and rob them of their treasures.

▪ Remember, always do your best, don't let them hook you, however tempting the bait.

▪ We can only do our best.

▪ What I learned from them specifically of the techniques of teaching I have had to do my best to unlearn since.

do your level best (to do sth)

▪ Even so he did his level best with the new ball.

▪ We did our level best to look fascinated.

easily the best/biggest etc

▪ Aluminium benching is easily the best, as it virtually lasts for ever and is easily cleaned.

▪ He's easily the best military brain in the country.

▪ It's easily the best Fermanagh side I've played on.

▪ It gave easily the best value.

▪ Johnny Hero played the between set music - again proving that he hosts easily the best disco in town.

▪ Natural gas forms easily the biggest world reserve of methane-rich fuel.

▪ The greens were easily the best part of the dish.

▪ The pension is easily the biggest single cash benefit.

even bigger/better/brighter etc

▪ But he actually proved even better than I thought.

▪ He had hoped to play an even bigger, more traditional role.

▪ I sort of thought the accident would make us play even better.

▪ It was even better when I got a hug and a kiss from the former Miss Minnesota!

▪ Many companies do so because smart managers know the importance of rewarding good work and inspiring even better efforts.

▪ There was something spontaneous and lively in his manner of speaking that made whatever he was saying sound even better.

▪ This show will be even better than the last one and is not to be missed!

▪ What is the best way of stemming this decline or, even better, of regenerating the economy?

fare well/badly/better etc

▪ I think the men fared better than the women.

▪ It can be seen that, whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate, some regions fared better than others.

▪ It still fared better than the broader market.

▪ Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.

▪ Not faring well, but resting.

▪ Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840.

▪ The Bloomberg Indiana Index fared better than the benchmark Standard&.

▪ There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well.

for better or (for) worse

▪ The reality is that, for better or worse, the world of publishing has changed.

▪ All five, for better or worse, have received recent votes of confidence from their respective general managers or team presidents.

▪ And for better or worse, the new interactivity brings enormous political leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost.

▪ And the consequences could be even more startling, for better or for worse.

▪ Decisions made in any of these places can hit our pocketbooks and our peace of mind, for better or for worse.

▪ He has toted the ball and the expectations, for better or worse.

▪ He was her husband ... for better or worse, he was her husband.

▪ Medical students in prolonged contact with junior doctors learn attitudes by example, for better or for worse.

▪ Today we know for better or for worse that cops, like doctors and priests, are merely human.

for the better

▪ Anything they can do to improve children's health is for the better.

▪ Besides, in some ways the change was for the better.

▪ Cloud changed things, all right, and not all for the better.

▪ That may be for the better.

▪ The formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 did not automatically change any of that for the better.

▪ The way was set for much-needed change, but would things change for the better?

▪ This change has not necessarily been one for the better.

▪ What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now?

for want of a better word/phrase etc

▪ Just horses and ploughs and, for want of a better word, peasants.

▪ Now, hands are, well, handed for want of a better word.

for want of anything better (to do)

get better

▪ Braden's teams always get better as the season goes on.

▪ Get some rest and get better, okay?

▪ I didn't remember anything about the accident, but little by little, as I got better, memories started coming back to me.

▪ I don't mind training hard, because you get better and better all the time.

▪ I hope the weather gets better soon.

▪ I hope you get better soon.

▪ If things don't get better, we may end up having to sell the house.

▪ Living conditions may get worse before they get better.

▪ My back has been quite bad recently, but it's getting better slowly.

▪ The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.

▪ And has it got better or worse?

▪ At school I sometimes used to get better marks than him, but that was when he chose not to exert himself.

▪ Even Quayle is getting better press than me.

▪ Four decades ago in Britain girls were getting better results than boys in the 11-plus exam.

▪ He was getting better every day, so much better, and yet business got worse and worse.

▪ So the Giants do have to get better, and history suggests rather strongly that better means not staying the same.

▪ To keep getting better, you must improve.

▪ When you've been blown to bits, as Zimmerman had, you either train hard or you don't get better.

get the better of sb

▪ Alison Leigh refuses to let circumstances get the better of her.

▪ Kramer's temper sometimes gets the better of him.

▪ At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov.

▪ Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani.

▪ Bored in the isolation of his taxi, curiosity and perhaps hunger got the better of him.

▪ But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults, going back to the Famous Five and beyond.

▪ I allowed my feelings to get the better of me.

▪ I run my fingers over this invisible object, and little by little curiosity gets the better of me.

▪ So mortals learned that it is not possible to get the better of Zeus or ever deceive him.

▪ We killed him, but that really got the better of us.

give sth your best shot

▪ I'm not promising I'll succeed, but I'll give it my best shot.

▪ Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot.

▪ I'd have given it my best shot, and that was all anyone could demand from me.

▪ I just have a feeling that we have given it our best shot.

▪ The band gave it their best shot, until the arrival of the blue meanies put an end to the proceedings.

▪ You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown, but I had to give it my best shot.

go down well/badly/a treat etc

▪ It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.

▪ It seems to be going down a treat.

go off well/badly etc

go one better (than sb)

▪ Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.

▪ But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.

▪ Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.

▪ Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.

▪ Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.

▪ She goes one better than last year.

▪ The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.

▪ They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.

go over well

good luck/best of luck

▪ Best of luck with your driving test.

▪ Good luck Archie! Enjoy your new job.

good/best/bad practice

▪ An annex citing examples of good practice would also be helpful.

▪ Carlesimo said Tuesday, adding that Marshall had just put in his best practice of camp.

▪ It is good practice to make a note of the client's telephone number on the file.

▪ Supporters of those with special needs should be exemplars of such good practice.

▪ The good practice presented in Table 2 and Appendix 3 addresses many of the factors important to the control of risk.

▪ There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records.

▪ These premises are often inadequate to support good practice.

▪ This week, for example, the permanent secretaries of all government departments will meet to discuss best practice in procurement.

good/better/healthy etc start (in life)

▪ A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed.

▪ But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.

▪ He had better start by accepting that if he does the right things, they will not be popular ones.

▪ It wasn't a very good start.

▪ Not a good start, but a start, nevertheless.

▪ The auditor may enjoy the gifts, but he had better start looking for a sympathy engram not yet suspected or tapped.

▪ The problem was the middle and end, when the team sacrificed rebounding for getting out to a good start.

▪ They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start, he believes.

greater/more/better etc than the sum of its parts

▪ Or is the organisation more than the sum of its parts?

had best

▪ They had best be careful.

▪ All due, of course, to the fact that she had bested Travis McKenna.

▪ But pitchers had best take note as well.

▪ If so, we had best listen closely, since we will not get another chance.

▪ Meanwhile we had best prepare the way by showing that a medicine beyond verbal shamanism is an aching need.

▪ Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do.

▪ Poets like Woodhouse had best go back to their jobs.

▪ The concept of differentiation is a key theme of our work, and we had best discuss it as the book unfolds.

had better

▪ I'd better not go out tonight; I'm really tired.

▪ You'd better phone Julie to say you'll be late.

▪ After what he has now said about a referendum, he had better watch out.

▪ Any organisation dismissing that vision as science-fiction had better look out.

▪ But Walter is a poor shade of what we have had better done.

▪ He thought he had better reread that part of the book.

▪ I did not want to go, but Dana said we had better do as they asked.

▪ I realized I had better hustle him out of there before he was asked about his acting career.

▪ In April 1911, he seemingly had better luck.

▪ They told Weary that he and Billy had better find somebody to surrender to.

half a loaf (is better than none)

have seen better days

▪ Ms. Davis's car had certainly seen better days.

▪ Virginia's car had definitely seen better days.

▪ We are working at Nanking University, in rather cramped and primitive conditions, for the buildings have seen better days.

hotter/colder/better etc than ever

▪ And that incentive was increased when they got personal recognition and satisfaction from doing it better than ever before.

▪ He says the new films are better than ever.

▪ Organised by the Alton and District Arts Council, the week promises to be better than ever.

▪ The moviemaking machine that Walt Disney created sixty years ago is working better than ever today.

▪ The National Health Service is now better than ever.

▪ The opportunities now are better than ever.

▪ This year's attractions are bigger and better than ever, with events running from Tuesday to Saturday.

▪ Watermen talked about their catches so far this year, which they said have been better than ever.

it is better/it would be better

it's/that's just as well

jolly well

▪ And charge they jolly well did.

▪ And if he hasn't changed his sheets by now, he jolly well ought to have done.

▪ But the horse is used to being brushed, or he jolly well should be!

▪ He claimed he hadn't any but he jolly well had!

▪ He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt.

▪ I mean, would you jolly well put money into this place?

kiss sth better

know better

▪ Parents should know better than their children, but they don't always necessarily do.

▪ The man said it was an 18 carat diamond, but Dina knew better.

▪ But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would.

▪ Even people who should know better have ended up paying a price for denying what they are feeling.

▪ Guess he should have known better.

▪ Now you know better, thass all.

▪ Then I would have known better.

▪ Time you knew better, young lady.

▪ Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better.

light years ahead/better etc than sth

make the best of sth

▪ It's not going to be fun, but we might as well make the best of it.

▪ A good travel partner laughs and makes the best of it.

▪ For the most part, however, he made the best of contemporary information.

▪ In these circumstances one makes the best of limited information.

▪ Jack made the best of his bad luck at being captured and found plenty to occupy his time.

▪ One has to make the best of a situation, after all.

▪ When Miihlenberg learned that it was indeed a free country, he made the best of things.

▪ Yet despite her palpable alienation from suburban stay-at-home motherhood, she is determined to make the best of it.

man's best friend

may as well

▪ Since we're just sitting here, we may as well have a drink.

▪ You may as well not turn it on, Cooper, until after the game.

▪ I may as well explain here why he did this much-criticized and desperate deed of daring....

▪ I may as well have not bothered.

▪ I may as well stick it out to the end.

▪ If Klepner's gonna get his job he may as well do the spiel.

▪ In the end the mission controllers took the very pragmatic view that they may as well continue the mission to the Moon.

▪ That may as well be a word from a foreign language.

▪ You may as well get used to it, Oakland.

▪ You may as well play when you are in a scoring mode.

may well

▪ Database development and a news archiving feature which may well appear as a separate product are also in the pipeline.

▪ Half a dozen senior people in the energy ministry, recently sacked on suspicion of taking bribes, may well join him.

▪ It may well be argued that any attempt at locating sUch a remote people is itself an idle one.

▪ Moreover, there may well be some very severe doubts about the application of the biological model even to the favourite cases.

▪ The two who stay may well be the ones who adapt to the new system the best.

▪ There may well be a real problem here.

▪ To take them off groundwater may well mean we have to subsidize them some more.

▪ You may well have heard of him.

might (just) as well

▪ And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.

▪ But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable, and one might as well say so.

▪ D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.

▪ He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.

▪ He said we might as well go before his sister arrived, because once she came, it would be impossible.

▪ I might as well have been a convert, a Gentile.

▪ I thought I might just as well come down to the point.

▪ You might as well go to a branch.

might well

▪ A design engineer might well require an appreciation of transmission line theory to ensure that the two connect together without data corruption.

▪ And it might well have done.

▪ Especially in large urban areas, a particular linguistic feature of a regional dialect might well be influenced by social factors.

▪ He looked as if he might well be Gordon Brunt.

▪ Subsequent notification to each individual affected by a suspended measure might well jeopardise the long-term purpose that originally prompted the surveillance.

▪ The pay was welcome and there might well be plunder to boot, not to mention the excitement.

▪ Thus a number of sections become cut off from the entrances and these might well not be reopened.

▪ Undoubtedly the most modern method devised to preserve human bodies might well be said to belong to the realm of science fiction.

miles older/better/too difficult etc

no better

▪ Caffeine received no better press in the twentieth century.

▪ Conditions were no better in the cities.

▪ Experts agree that in reality, the company looked after the workforce no better than most other employers of that time.

▪ Havvie Blaine, for all his name and lineage, was no better than Terry Rourke.

▪ If you turned to domestic politics, the news was no better.

▪ In fact, it was no better and no worse than other Air Force major commands.

▪ Nearly a decade later, our educational system was no better off than it had been when the commission issued its report.

▪ The problem with network computers is that they are no better than the networks they are connected to.

none the worse/better etc (for sth)

▪ Although the animal glowed rosy-pink, it appeared none the worse for its ordeal.

▪ I recovered, my mouth none the worse for it, after all.

▪ Peter's little pet was clearly none the worse for its time in the underworld.

not know any better

▪ Before Sinai, one could argue, the people had the excuse of not knowing any better.

not sit well/easily/comfortably (with sb)

▪ Certainly, such views as these do not sit comfortably with managerialism and are equally at odds with restricted professionality.

▪ He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him.

▪ One might think a hockey fan would not sit easily at a sewing machine piecing together patches for a quilt.

▪ The adornment, thought Eloise smugly, would not sit well amidst so much blubber.

▪ The closures, which began late last month, does not sit well with many of the regulars.

▪ The populist vision of a peasant landholding democracy does not sit easily with alternative visions of women's rights.

▪ The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.

▪ This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall.

nothing better

▪ Analysts in Harare believe Mr Mugabe would like nothing better than the chance to declare a nationwide state of emergency.

▪ For sleeping there is nothing better than cotton.

▪ He had nothing better to do.

▪ I should have remembered: our new management likes nothing better than doing things on the cheap.

▪ Learn to tie it and you will realise there is nothing better.

▪ Rowland moves outside the establishment - in fact, he likes nothing better than upsetting it.

▪ The reporters, oddly enough, just happen to be sitting there in the line of fire with nothing better to do.

▪ With nothing better to do, Billy shuffled in their direction.

pass off well/badly etc

perform well/badly etc

▪ After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.

▪ All this works only if Hanson's headquarters performs well in its non-executive role.

▪ Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.

▪ Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor's own subcontractor?

▪ Organizations need some degree of structure to perform well.

▪ This propellant combination performs well and permits a fairly compact vehicle design.

▪ To perform well a team needs a range of roles in its make-up.

▪ Yet these stocks performed well in both.

personal best

▪ But I still ran 20.51 seconds for a personal best, so I was happy.

▪ Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.

▪ Fredericks' 19. 68 was 0. 14 seconds lower than his personal best.

▪ His personal best before this season was 10. 08.

▪ I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres, so that was encouraging.

▪ Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season.

▪ Sammy also collected a 50 freestyle bronze with 31.44-a personal best along with her 43.95 in the 50 breaststroke.

▪ That means that their motives are clean and their actions represent their personal best.

photograph well

▪ Despite worries to the contrary, pressed flowers photograph well and make a refreshing change from more conventional forms of artwork.

▪ Owing to poor light conditions, these particular marks did not photograph well.

pretty well/much

▪ In 1992, Clinton had pretty much wrapped up the Democratic nomination by Super Tuesday.

▪ It seemed to be pretty much an open and shut case of accidental death, apart from the problem of identifying him.

▪ Once we would arrive at a place, Alistair seemed to leave Judy pretty much on her own.

▪ Otherwise you have to walk the half block, but then you can see them pretty well.

▪ Our point here is that at an abstract level, every organization values pretty much the same things.

▪ Since I was there six years ago some things have changed and others have remained pretty much the same.

▪ They have timed the deal pretty well, and not just from a weather outlook.

▪ They know me pretty well here.

sb had better/best do sth

sb knows best

sb would do well to do sth

▪ Nelson would do well to keep her political views out of her work.

▪ And President Dole or President Clinton would do well to take advantage of the services of such a splendid fellow.

▪ However, managers would do well to first address their own personal fears and discomfort.

▪ It's a motto the world of fundraising would do well to remember.

▪ Kansas City would do well to follow their example.

▪ Our selectors would do well to not pay too much attention to birth certificates.

▪ Parents would do well to discuss them with their doctor or hospital personnel before birth. 1.

▪ She would do well to remember that.

▪ This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking.

send your love/regards/best wishes etc

▪ He sends his best wishes to everybody at home.

▪ Mr Mason sends his best wishes for the success of the event.

so much the better

▪ If it makes illegal drug use even more difficult, so much the better.

▪ You can use dried parsley, but if you have fresh, so much the better.

▪ And if I am Peter, so much the better.

▪ And if that can change things, so much the better Female speaker He's the little man having a kick.

▪ But if I can manage with fewer trips to the store, so much the better.

▪ If love eventually grows, so much the better.

▪ If they are alive so much the better, but they can be persuaded to take dead ones.

▪ If they can fit in with the room's general style, so much the better.

▪ If we can improve the team another way, so much the better.

▪ So a single fluorescent tube will be adequate, and if you have used floating plants, so much the better.

sth is (well) worth waiting for

▪ Tuesday night's Boston-Chicago game was worth waiting for.

▪ Something worth having is worth waiting for.

that's better

▪ Come on, give me a hug. There, that's better, isn't it?

▪ Try keeping your arm straight when you hit the ball. That's better!

▪ But that's better than none.

▪ She had half drained her mug when she said, ` Ah, that's better!

▪ So let's try: That's better. the pages now contain both words.

▪ Surely that's better than fading away in a hospital bed somewhere?

▪ That's better, the waist is accentuated now.

▪ Well, that's better than finding half a worm!

the best

▪ I chose a Japanese camera because I wanted to have the best.

▪ She's the best of the new young writers.

▪ She was the best in her class at college.

▪ When it comes to cancer research, Professor Williams is probably the best in her field.

the best medicine

▪ Laughter is the best medicine.

▪ A former teacher at Longlands College, Middlesbrough, Pat always believes in laughter as the best medicine for loneliness.

▪ Besides, it is the best medicine.

▪ Having Louella come and live with me will be the best medicine in the world.

▪ Recovery is the best medicine for the market, but it must be sustainable.

the best of a bad lot/bunch

the best of both worlds

▪ Job-sharing gives me the best of both worlds - I can be with my children and keep my professional status.

▪ All in all, a great place to enjoy the best of both worlds.

▪ An arrangement like this can often be the best of both worlds.

▪ And taking into account the prices of both the ME-6 and ME-10 they really are the best of both worlds.

▪ But if the eye can remain open without being seen, then the prey has the best of both worlds.

▪ Supporters say this type of extended day is the best of both worlds.

▪ This is the best of both worlds.

▪ Used in conjunction with a moisturising conditioner, it will give your lank locks the best of both worlds.

▪ You get the best of both worlds in a job like this: use your strong back and your agile mind.

the best of sth

▪ At the best of times, the industry is very competitive, but this is not the best of times.

▪ But Black Mountain was often not the best of all possible worlds.

▪ But they clearly were not the best of their time, and that should be the No. 1 voting criterion.

▪ He is the first to admit that he was not the best of patients.

▪ Obviously, not the best of plans.

▪ Seb was not the best of patients.

the best/better part of sth

▪ Almost any child will assert that recess is the best part of the school day.

▪ Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.

▪ Converse drank the better part of the rum.

▪ For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints.

▪ I spent the better part of my time moping around the house, too dejected to think about practicing my stunts.

▪ It is not widely taught or particularly popular be-cause it takes the better part of a lifetime to master.

▪ This was it, the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week.

the best/biggest etc ... of all time

▪ And seeing as it was my brainchild, would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time?

▪ Surely the biggest robbery of all time was the $ 900m that the Dome stole from lottery funds?

▪ That's the biggest understatement of all time!

▪ You could call that round the biggest fluke of all time....

the best/biggest etc ... this side of sth

the best/biggest/fastest etc possible

▪ Any successful entrepreneurial venture starts with making sure that the entrepreneur is in the best possible mental and physical health.

▪ But the psychologist was never confident that he had obtained the best possible scores from Nelson.

▪ For a moment, I imagined the best possible to the worst possible reply.

▪ Obviously, the purpose is to ensure that the best possible pensions arrangements are reached.

▪ That way it will have the best possible start in life.

▪ The additional value farmers receive is the best possible free advice on both inputs and marketing.

▪ The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.

▪ This at once enhances the contribution which the court or parents can make towards reaching the best possible decision in all the circumstances.

the best/greatest thing since sliced bread

▪ Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

the best/pick of the bunch

▪ But me third was the best of the bunch.

▪ Either they are one of the best of the bunch at home, or they make their name abroad.

▪ Even these modest broadcasts show only the best of the bunch.

▪ He may be the best of the bunch.

▪ It's also the best of the bunch for multi-processing, he says.

▪ Nevertheless as an introduction it is the best of the bunch.

▪ Woolwich is the best of the bunch, trading at a multiple to future earnings of 10.3.

the better

the biggest/best/nicest etc sth going

▪ A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.

▪ Are the best bargains going to petrol buyers?

▪ But in those years, they were always the team with the best record going into the playoffs.

▪ Its got to be the best ticket office going.

▪ Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.

▪ There was a wide range of scores with the best individual score going to George McCallum of Douglas Reyburn with 37 points.

▪ This, so I was led to believe, was the best it was going to get.

▪ What is the best way of going forward? - Ideas from within I hear you say!

the next best thing

▪ If I can't be home for Christmas, this is the next best thing.

▪ He can't ask them, so he is doing the next best thing.

▪ I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title.

▪ It is the next best thing to crossing the deserts of the world oneself.

▪ The new switch is the next best thing we could do to moving.

▪ The room is the next best thing to being outside.

▪ Video may seem like the next best thing to being there, but electronically mediated interactions are different from real-life meetings.

▪ We do, however, have the next best thing: a place to go for more information.

▪ We went to the bookshelves to find the next best thing.

the next best thing

▪ He can't ask them, so he is doing the next best thing.

▪ I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title.

▪ It is the next best thing to crossing the deserts of the world oneself.

▪ The new switch is the next best thing we could do to moving.

▪ The room is the next best thing to being outside.

▪ Video may seem like the next best thing to being there, but electronically mediated interactions are different from real-life meetings.

▪ We do, however, have the next best thing: a place to go for more information.

▪ We went to the bookshelves to find the next best thing.

the sooner ( ... ) the better

▪ The sooner we get these bills paid off, the better.

▪ They knew they had to leave town, and the sooner the better.

the sooner the better/the bigger the better etc

think better of it

▪ She felt like slapping him in the face, but thought better of it.

▪ But he thought better of it and slowly breathed out the air through his nose.

▪ But then she thought better of it.

▪ Cowher said later he momentarily contemplated tackling Hudson, but thought better of it.

▪ He thought better of it, and despite a case of galloping homesickness, decided not to go home at all.

▪ He could have forced the window in time, anyone could, but he seemed suddenly to think better of it.

▪ He passed Miguel the joint but Miguel thought better of it.

▪ Then he thought better of it.

think the best/worst of sb

▪ Ellie's the type of person that always thinks the best of people.

▪ He thought the worst of Mitch and clearly thought that left to herself she would ring London at once.

▪ I was so ready to think the worst of him, she wailed inwardly.

▪ My immediate reaction, whether it be a man or a woman, is to think the worst of them.

▪ The prospect of Guy leaving, thinking the worst of her, was unbearable.

▪ Why should you think the worst of me?

▪ You always think the worst of me.

to the best of your ability

▪ All the children competed and performed to the best of their ability.

▪ I have always done my work to the best of my ability.

to the best of your knowledge/belief/ability etc

travel well

▪ Clear out your food cupboard and throw away everything that will not travel well, such as leaky, crushable or carbonated goods.

▪ Commercially precooked and ready-to-eat foods such as deli meats and cheeses travel well.

▪ He could travel well enough on his own, if only they'd let him.

▪ It had travelled well and the colour emphasised her astonishing fairness.

▪ It is excellent wine, in either its white or its red versions, and said to travel well.

▪ Smells travel well under water, though what the experience of underwater scents may be like is open to imagination.

▪ Some things don't travel well, in time or in space.

trump/best/strongest card

▪ And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.

▪ In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.

▪ Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.

▪ That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.

▪ That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.

▪ The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.

▪ This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.

▪ We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.

two heads are better than one

very well

▪ Very well, you can go to Emily's house, but be back by 7 p.m.

▪ All three are very well represented as sediments, shelly fossils and trace.fossils.

▪ Gentlemen, you could very well be using this gravel strip as an emergency landing field for huge bombers.

▪ In the psyche, as we know, such opposites as true and false coexist very well.

▪ Life in a Mayfair rectory suited her very well and she had private means.

▪ Nevertheless, it captures the essence of the game very well.

▪ She decided to rest, having treated enough cases of sunstroke to know very well how easily it was caught.

▪ The last time they played, Taylor took Michael Irvin man-to-man most of the day and did very well.

vote sth a success/the best etc

▪ But they will be in costume, and all party goers will have a chance to vote on the best disguise.

▪ They also voted the Cappuccino the best sub-£20,000 sports car in the show.

wash well

▪ Silk doesn't wash well.

▪ Drain the anchovies and wash well to remove the oil from the surface.

▪ This one is knitted in a linen-mix yarn which washes well and feels especially soft to touch.

wear well

▪ Brass wears as well as steel in most hinges.

▪ Pavement's album from 1991 still wears well.

▪ A dense pile wears better than a loosely-woven one, which can be parted to reveal the backing.

▪ But most have stayed and worn well, reassuring and fixed points in an otherwise changing landscape.

▪ He has worn well, she mused.

▪ He was producing boots that sold well but did not wear well.

▪ His haughtiness did not wear well with the Republicans who controlled both houses of the legislature.

▪ If he was Sorrel's father, then he must have been around his mid-forties at least, but he'd worn well.

▪ That bit of you has worn well!

▪ Vibram: a brand name for a traditional tough and heavy-duty patterned sole which wears well.

well and truly

▪ After two weeks, the kids were well and truly converted.

▪ But I had been caught, well and truly, and had paid the price, time and time again.

▪ From February, the challenge will have well and truly begun, especially if your birthday falls between August 13 and 23.

▪ It looked as if she was well and truly trapped.

▪ Mind you any food in our stomach was going to get well and truly shaken up.

▪ One word from him and doors that Washington depended on being open would be well and truly slammed.

▪ The padded fabric varieties are well and truly childproof - and look very attractive.

▪ We were all well and truly bitten.

well connected

▪ And it does show these people are well connected.

▪ Be sure to get concrete and focused information from some one well connected to the writing world.

▪ By Road Carnlough is 35 miles from Belfast and is well connected with regular transport services.

▪ Certainly, such insubordination and disloyalty would have gotten a less well connected man court-martialed.

▪ For non-residents, other than the nobly born and well connected, it is less informative.

▪ Pogo's family were very well connected and he had an entrée to every branch of society.

▪ Samson was a man of worldly tastes and habits: he was well connected, well educated, generous and rich.

▪ She was well off, well educated, well connected, but she wasn't well.

well now

▪ Well now, do you agree or not?

▪ Buffalo is better now on offense than they have been.

▪ But things were much better now.

▪ Even though he could foresee the problem then, we can see it equally well now.

▪ He and I get along very well now.

▪ I know Steven's method of working very well now.

▪ Q: Your album is doing incredibly well now, and your career is on the upswing.

▪ The clients expect and understand that quite well now, because it's been happening for about two or three years.

▪ Um, yeah, yeah, I actually started getting kind of sick but I am feeling better now.

well-travelled

well/badly/carefully etc organized

▪ From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.

▪ In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.

▪ Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.

▪ Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.

▪ Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.

▪ The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.

▪ They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.

well/beautifully/badly etc turned out

▪ He looks trim and well turned out in a new dark suit.

▪ Mr. Russ's deputy was Mr. Windust, then probably in his late thirties - always smart and well turned out.

wish sb (the best of) luck

▪ But had we sat down with her, we would have wished her good luck.

▪ Everyone wished each other good luck and Mould, Matron and Endill headed off to the library.

▪ I wish him luck and hope that after a couple of years he is transferred back!

▪ James wished me good luck and dashed off home.

▪ Lineker and Paul Gascoigne have both been in touch with Spurs to wish them good luck for the new season.

▪ She wishes me luck, opens the door to the bathroom, and disappears into a cloud of steam.

▪ Well, I wish you luck.

▪ Yet at the start of the day both sides had wished each other luck.

with the best of intentions/for the best of reasons

with the best will in the world

▪ And, David, with the best will in the world, you can't teach him.

▪ Even with the best will in the world, we could not do it.

you would be well/ill advised to do sth

you'd better believe it!

▪ "Do they make money on them?" "You'd better believe it!"

your Sunday best

your best bet

▪ For getting around the city centre, a bicycle's your best bet.

▪ We decided that our best bet was to leave him where he was and go and get help.

▪ Well, your best bet would be to go back to Highway 218 and turn left.

your best bib and tucker

your better half/other half

your/her/my etc Sunday best

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Before you open it, shake the bottle well.

▪ Both books are very well written and enjoyable to read.

▪ Dad doesn't hear very well anymore.

▪ Don't worry about the test - I'm sure you'll do well.

▪ Jean's playing much better since you gave her some lessons.

▪ We didn't win, but at least we played well.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Educated men hid their jealousy awfully well.

▪ Especially on liberal initiatives, they face defections by moderates, as well as Republican delaying tactics.

▪ Government giveaways to special-interest groups often hurt the environment as well.

▪ The final test of truth, as Marxists well know, is human action.

▪ This fear of fear will both provoke further symptoms as well as preventing the existing ones from diminishing naturally.

▪ This might well be the word processor that puts WordStar right back on the map in the word processor stakes.

▪ We had come to believe that Concorde was not just impossibly graceful but infallible as well.

II.interjection

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Well, I don't think she's the best person for the job.

▪ Well, I suppose this room will be big enough for the meeting.

▪ Well, I think you should wait for a better offer.

▪ Well, let's see now, I could book you in for an appointment next Thursday.

▪ Well, that's all for today, I'll see you all tomorrow.

▪ Well, you'd think at least she might have phoned to say she wasn't coming!

▪ Well, you look really good in a suit and tie.

▪ Oh well, at least we have a place to stay tonight.

▪ This needs to be copied, and, well, I don't have time to do it.

▪ You know the guy I was telling you about? Well, he dropped out of school.

III.adjective