bang-up plan
- noun
- Informal
:
plan excelente
- With his bang-up plan, the team finished the project ahead of schedule.
Examples
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We need a bang-up plan if we want to impress the investors.
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That was a bang-up plan you came up with to solve the problem.
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That was a fantastic bang-up plan!
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We need a bang-up plan for the project.
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Your bang-up plan for the fundraiser really impressed everyone.
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Everyone agrees that the new marketing strategy is a bang-up plan.
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The committee loved her bang-up plan for the community event.
Antonyms
How Good
- Informal
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'bang-up' meaning 'exceptionally good' is idiomatic and not transparently built from the literal senses of 'bang' (a strike or loud noise) + 'up' (direction). A B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would be unlikely to infer the evaluative sense 'excellent' for 'bang-up plan', so the expression is best classified as opaque.
Etymology
Bang-up plan may come from the loud word bang, which gives the idea of something striking, plus up to make that idea stronger. So a bang-up plan is like a plan that makes a big, impressive 'bang' and means 'excellent'.