job's a good 'un
- idiom
- UK
:
trabajo bien hecho
- We finally finished painting the fence; job's a good 'un!
Examples
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He put the last screw in place and declared, job's a good 'un.
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Once the software installed without errors, she smiled and said, job's a good 'un.
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After finishing the project, I said, "Job's a good 'un!"
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He looked at the completed report and exclaimed, "Job's a good 'un!"
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He put the last screw in place and declared, job's a good 'un.
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We finally finished painting the fence; job's a good 'un!
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Once the software installed without errors, she smiled and said, job's a good 'un.
Synonyms
426
4.9
Say this to show you have given something or finished a task
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1.0
To praise someone for doing a task well
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1.9
Very good work that impresses people
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7.4
A short way to show approval or praise for something done well
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4.2
A piece of work that is done very well
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3.7
A phrase people say when they finish a task successfully
Words people say when a difficult situation ends well
Shows approval when someone makes good progress
How Positive
Surface Forms
Morphology
job's + a + good + 'un
The phrase can be parsed compositionally as 'the job is a good one,' so a learner who knows 'job', 'a', 'good' and the colloquial 'one' could infer the basic meaning. However, the contracted form ('un) and the idiomatic, dialectal use as a congratulatory exclamation/pragmatic comment may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without exposure.
Etymology
Job's a good 'un comes from British workers saying good 'un, which is short for good one, when a job was finished and praised. Imagine a worker stepping back, happy with the result, and saying job's a good 'un, so it means 'all done and well done'.