a good deal
English
Etymology
From deal (“(obsolete) division, portion, share”)
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Adverb
- (idiomatic) Very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.
- We had a good deal more money afterwards.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar,
- She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly: so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
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Noun
- (idiomatic) A large amount; a lot.
- He made a good deal of trouble for us.
- 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, How to Write a Blackwood Article:
- You may make a good deal of that little fact if properly worked.
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