good deal

a good deal

A large degree or amount, usually indefinite or intangible. There's a good deal to be learned from listening to your elders. I own a good deal of books at home. They're starting to clutter up the place. We'll need a good deal more if we're going to have enough.
See also: deal, good

good deal

1. A very favorable agreement, cost, or situation. We never thought we'd be able to afford a neighborhood like this, but we got a good deal on this house.
2. An acknowledgment that a situation or proposal is acceptable, pleasing, or fortuitous. A: "I'll plan on coming around this Friday evening." B: "Good deal, buddy."
See also: deal, good
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a good deal

Also, a great deal. See under good deal.
See also: deal, good

good deal, a

Also, a great deal.
1. A large but indefinite quantity, as in He has a good (or great) deal of money; also, to a large extent or degree, as in "I bled ... a great deal" (from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719). Also see good many.
2. A very successful transaction or business agreement; a bargain. For example, The new agent got him a great deal, or Only $50,000 for all that land? That's a good deal. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
See also: good
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

Good deal!

exclam. That is good! (Old, but still heard.) Everyone is here on time! Good deal!
See also: good
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a good deal
  • good deal, a
  • great deal
  • square deal
  • square deal, a
  • a square deal
  • deal out
  • take the body
  • it takes two to make a bargain
  • deal stock
References in classic literature
People are thrown together a good deal on a voyage like this.
The Malefactor
Guest and you, sir; of course I feel the most indebted to you , who first took me into the business, and have taken a good deal of pains with me since."
The Mill on the Floss
"This man Barker has certainly been down here a good deal. He is a man who might be attractive to a woman.
The Valley of Fear
A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again, but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage carpentery had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.
Hugo, getting thirsty after a long warble, drinks it, loses his wits, and after a good deal of clutching and stamping, falls flat and dies, while Hagar informs him what she has done in a song of exquisite power and melody.
Little Women
With a good deal more of that sort, which I wondered how they knew.
The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time.
David Copperfield
Either you slip out of service altogether, and become good for nothing, or you wear the harness and draw a good deal where your yoke-fellows pull you.
Middlemarch
And though I was a good deal puffed up with my adventures and with having come off, as the saying is, with flying colours; yet he soon had me on my knees beside a simple, poor old man, and both proud and glad to be there.
Kidnapped
As it was, I left him to himself a good deal, and he didn't like that either.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
He talked of the old college days when he and Gaston had been a good deal to each other; of the days of keen and blind ambitions and large intentions.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The procession moved with a good deal of promptness.
Connecticut Yankee
Aunt Sally she was busy getting the children ready for bed; so by and by it got dull and tedious, and me and Tom took a turn in the moonlight, and fetched up in the watermelon-patch and et one, and had a good deal of talk.
Tom Sawyer Detective
"Sixty-seven,--a man can see and do a good deal in that time," I said, not flattering myself on the originality of the remark, but desiring to set him talking.
Quest of the Golden Girl
I can enjoy feeling melancholy, and there is a good deal of satisfaction about being thoroughly miserable; but nobody likes a fit of the blues.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow