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not bad
Also, not half bad;; not too shabby. Fairly good, as in Not bad, said the conductor, but we need to play the scherzo again, or The movie wasn't half bad, but Jerry wanted to go home, or Our garden's not too bad this year, or How are things going?—Not too shabby. All of the terms involving bad, which imply that something is less bad than it might be, date from the mid-1700s. The last variant, using shabby in the sense of “inferior,” is slang of the late 1900s.
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How to ensure gaming is good for your mental wellbeing - not bad.
So I accepted and we kept it going,” said Junior H. “Especially with men, I think it’s important to show people that feelings are not bad and we can express them as we want.”
"But the joke was about fluoride. I have big, gap teeth, not bad teeth."
She continued: “But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth. I don’t mind caricature — I understand that’s what ‘SNL’ is.
"I have big gap teeth not bad teeth."
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