all good
- idiom
- /ɔl ɡʊd/
- Informal
- If you have no concerns, then it's all good.
It's just all good on the way up and the way down.
- It's just all good on the way up and the way down.
- And the ISR comes back with all good, nobody's there.
- Sorry, no, it's all good in cricket.
- But then I realized that we're all good.
- Whereas in the UK they're just like, it's all good boys gambling.
- I have a bunch of case of five cases, but all good, my old one and hi.
Examples
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It's just all good on the way up and the way down.
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It's all good on this end.
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I worked with my team, I thought we were all good with everything.
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We're all good here, right?
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And the message we got back was, I'm all good with this.
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- It's all good, Toni.
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Aside from the loss of those top tabs, I think it's all good.
Blog text (11) -
It's all good.
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I'm all good.
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All good.
Synonyms
In good enough condition so no one needs to worry
Good enough but not very good
Feeling healthy or good enough to use
Saying that something can be done easily or that you do not need to worry
Okay or good enough
In a way that is good enough but not very good
Everything is fine and working well
Antonyms
How Acceptable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'all' (everything) and 'good' (acceptable), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the meaning 'everything is fine' or 'no problem'. This simple compositional pattern (everything + adjective) is cross-linguistically common and entails no major idiomatic shift, making the expression transparent.
Etymology
All good may come from casual speech among surfers and skaters. After a fall, someone would say 'all good' to show they were not hurt, so today all good means 'everything is fine' or 'no problem'.