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all very well
All right or quite true as far as it goes. For example, It's all very well for Jane to drop out, but how will we find enough women to make up a team? This idiom, first recorded in 1853, generally precedes a question beginning with “but,” as in the example. Also see well and good.
Example Sentences
It's all very well for the Treasury to take measures to soothe the bond markets, where government debt is traded.
He described how the audience was then moved into a basement area, with staff saying there was “no immediate cause for concern”, and added the situation had been "handled all very well".
This, after all, very well may be the most stacked Huskies draft class yet.
“But he’s smart and he uses them all very well.”
That’s all very well, if tricky to parse.
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