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not half bad
(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.
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.
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