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not half bad

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(It's) not half bad.

It's not as bad as one might have thought. Mary: How do you like this play? Jane: Not half bad. Jane: Well, how do you like college? Fred: It's not half bad.

See also: bad, half, not

not half bad

(spoken)

almost good He didn't look half bad by the time he'd had a bath and put on clean clothes.

Related vocabulary: not bad

See also: bad, half, not