do a good/great job
idiom
: to do something very well
Whoever planned the party did a good/great job.
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The stories do a great job bringing together these colorful characters that feel like the comics.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
This will do a great job of filtering ash particles produced by the recent wildfire but will not clean chemicals from the air, said El-Hasan.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
That being said, the show does do a good job of trying to catch us up on everybody’s reputation and their dynamics with other players — like explaining the Big Brother bad blood between Danielle Reyes and Britney.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
Similarly, universities do not do a great job with administrative efficiency with mushrooming overhead along with programs and departments that live on in perpetuity.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024
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Rob Wieland, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
This will do a great job of filtering ash particles produced by the recent wildfire but will not clean chemicals from the air, said El-Hasan.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
That being said, the show does do a good job of trying to catch us up on everybody’s reputation and their dynamics with other players — like explaining the Big Brother bad blood between Danielle Reyes and Britney.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
Similarly, universities do not do a great job with administrative efficiency with mushrooming overhead along with programs and departments that live on in perpetuity.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Do a good/great job.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/do%20a%20good%2Fgreat%20job. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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