world of good, a



world of good, a

A great benefit, as in A vacation will do you a world of good. This expression uses world in the sense of "a great deal," a usage dating from the 1400s. [Late 1800s]
See also: of, world

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Aibek-Kazakh, Kyrgyz
LjubicaLYOO-bee-tsah (Serbian, Croatian)Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene
Morwenna-Cornish, Welsh
Riya-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali
Koresh-Biblical Hebrew
Viktoriavik-TO-ree-ah (German), veek-TO-ree-yah (Russian)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian