have a good time



Have a good time.

Enjoy yourself in what you are about to do. (Often said when someone is about to leave for an event.) Bill: I'm leaving for the party now. Father: Have a good time. Sue: Tonight is the formal dance at the Palmer House, and I'm going. Mary: Have a good time. I'm watching television right here.
See also: good, have, time

have a good time

Enjoy oneself, as in I hope you have a good time at the beach. This idiom, also used as an imperative, dates from 16th-century England, where it was popular until the late 1600s and died out. Samuel Pepys, in a diary entry of March 1, 1666, wrote, "I went and had as good a time as heart could wish." In America it continued to be used, and in the 1800s it reappeared in British speech as well. Also see hard time; show one a good time.
See also: good, have, time

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Reginarə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norweg
Ercanbald-Ancient Germanic
Vidya-Hinduism, Indian, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil
Boone[bu:n]
EveleenEV-ə-leenEnglish (Rare)
GwendolenGWEN-də-lin (English)Welsh