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not go amiss

  (British, American & Australian informal) also not come amiss (British & Australian informal)

if something would not go amiss, it would be useful and might help to improve a situation (usually in conditional tenses) A word of apology would not go amiss. Some extra helpers never come amiss.

See also: amiss