good and

comparative more good and · superlative most good and

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.
2. idiomaticVery; plenty; exceptionally; quite, utterly.

   good and ready

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   I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!

   As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.

   1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island

   Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

   1946, H. L. Mencken, American Mercury

   [S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it.

   2008, Nancy Huston, Fault Lines, →ISBN