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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Good

Good as a feast.
—Anonymous

Good as an addled egg.
—Anonymous

Good as an idle bird.
—Anonymous

Good as ever went upon the ground.
—Anonymous

Good as new.
—Anonymous

Beauty is as good as ready money.
—Anonymous

Good as truth.
—Anonymous

Good as dew to flowers.
—Anonymous

Good as gold.
—Honoré de Balzac

Good as white bread and just as insipid.
—Honoré de Balzac

Good as wheat.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Good as gold.
—Robert Buchanan

As good as a show.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Good as a play.
—Charles II

As good music as when pigs play on the organ.
—John Clarke (Proverbs)

Good as ever water wet.
—William Hazlitt (Proverbs)

Good as ever trod upon shoe leather.
—London Chanticleers

Good as bread.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Good as puppet show.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)

Good as ever flew in the air.
—John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)

Good as a sermon.
—Robert Southey

Good as a comedy.
—John Taylor

To do good to the base is like sowing the sea.
—Theognis