not half bad
an expression meaning good, used especially when you are rather surprised that something is good

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not half bad
almost good.
He didn't look half bad by the time he'd had a bath and put on clean clothes.

Related vocabulary: not bad

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not half bad
to be okay, to be pretty good
The restaurant meal was not half bad and everybody seemed to like it.

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not half bad
{adj.}, {informal} Pretty good; all right; good enough.
The party last night was not bad.

It was not so bad, as inexpensive vacations go.

The show was not half bad.

See: NOT BAD.

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