for good reason

for good reason

Because something has already been proven to be true or justified. Yes, I'm suspicious, but for good reason—I've already caught her twice.
See also: good, reason
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • choir
  • preach to the
  • preach to the choir
  • preach to the converted
  • has come and gone
  • have come and gone
  • go the round
  • go the round(s)
  • third time's the charm
  • fait accompli
References in periodicals archive
Baked brie with jam or fruit is popular for good reason
In those rulings, the IRS held that compensation was still performance based even though the payments could be made upon involuntary termination without cause or voluntary termination for good reason.
We are actually one of a few holdouts that haven't already signed up, for good reason. The "globalists" have been trying to sucker us into this one for a long time.
While conditions in the country were far from perfect, the 'storming' of the Bastille is said to have freed only nine prisoners, some of whom were there for good reason. Louis also forbade his soldiers to fire on the mob to prevent bloodshed, and this probably ensured his capture and later execution.
This book by a former editor of Building Design has already attracted considerable attention for good reason: it is a detailed, well researched and well referenced account of the destruction wrought on the architecture of the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries for military or political purposes, with special attention to all the best known examples.
Society gives us no credibility, and for good reason.
The book has stimulated a rainbow of reactions in IHE circles, and for good reason. Agree with the authors or not, they provide many examples and make tough points worth thinking about--ideally without a knee-jerk reaction.
Touted, at 98 grams, as the 'lightest 3G handset' available in the market, it comes with a limited set of features (only a VGA camera, for example), but it does have an organic EL "Stream Screen" sub-display and has a built-in crime prevention buzzer function, a feature which was also just introduced by DoCoMo (for good reason).
A SOLDIER who claimed 13 people were shot dead for good reason on Bloody Sunday refused to testify at the Saville Inquiry yesterday.
With this, some said Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn't play leading roles for good reason, that he's too good, intense, supersaturated to be a leading man.
Gilbert T Sewall, director of ATC and the report's author, says, "Textbooks say many favorable things about Islam for good reason. But they shy away from subjects that cast Islam in a negative light." This, he argues in the report, has been happening during the past two decades, as textbook editors "have moved from the neglect of Islamic history to self-censorship." In contrast, textbooks cover the Crusades, slavery, imperialism, women's suffrage and other areas of Western history with candor, the report notes.
Typically, "hitting the wall" occurs at about mile 20, for good reason. Your body is able to store approximately 2,000 calories of glycogen to fuel your race.
Everyone's talking about eBooks, for good reason. First, Fatbrain.com developed Mightywords.com, where readers and writers can buy, sell, and publish written content, called eMatter.
Vitamin K, the blood-clotting vitamin, bears that nickname for good reason. A deficiency of this naturally occurring nutrient, though rare in well-fed societies, can cause hemorrhaging.