good run
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3.4
- noun
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buena racha
- You got rich, you had a good run, and now it's time to retire.
- a pretty good run
- a very good run
- make a good run
I I got good scores and I had a good run.
- I I got good scores and I had a good run.
- And so I took the plunge and we had a pretty good run.
- So I love my wife, you know, but if she gets sick and dies, well, we had a good run.
- And So what that tells me is that, you know, they're recognizing, yeah, it's been a freakishly good run for PE.
- And, you know, I had a lot of people say, you've had a good run, give this crap up, go and get a real job.
- And it's like, well, you know, we've had a good run.
- I said, listen, you might have a good run, right?
- Oh my, oh boy, have a good run.
- Yet there were had some good runs in there, right.
Examples
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It was a good run while it lasted.
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All right, folks, I thought that was a pretty good run.
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I mean, 17 years is a pretty good run.
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You guys had a good run, man.
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Look, we had a good run.
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We had a good run, right?
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We had a good run.
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We've had a good run.
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At the end of the day, Ron Paul made a good run, but was never a realistic candidate.
Blog text (21) -
After years of hard work, her business had a good run and garnered many loyal customers.
Synonyms
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3.7
A continuous period when a machine or process works
42
5.6
A period of continued success and good luck
Antonyms
How Successful
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2.8
26
3.4
149
4.3
304
2.0
5
4.8
65
4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'good' modifying the noun 'run' when 'run' already has the sense 'a continuous spell of events or successes' — together they straightforwardly yield 'a period of success'. This simple adjective+noun composition follows normal, cross-linguistic semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand it.
Etymology
The noun good run comes from the image of a long run, like a player or team that keeps moving forward and winning many games in a row. So, good run means 'a period of success' because things keep going well without problems.