as good as

as good as

English

Adverb

as good as (not comparable)

1. almost, virtually, practically; tantamount to

   Sending the soldiers out into that blizzard was as good as murdering them!

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

Translations

almost completely

Dutch: zo goed als Finnish: käytännössä (fi) French: déjà (fr), pratiquement (fr), presque (fr) German: so gut wie (de)

Portuguese: praticamente Russian: всё равно́ что (vsjó ravnó što), почти́ (что) (ru) (počtí (što)), факти́чески (ru) (faktíčeski), практи́чески (ru) (praktíčeski) Swedish: så gott som (sv)