good evening

good evening

A conventional expression of greeting or, less commonly, farewell used around or after dusk. Good evening, Mary, is your father home? I believe we've made great progress so far, and we shall resume in the morning. Good evening, gentlemen!
See also: evening, good
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

good evening

see under good day.
See also: evening, good
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • good morning
  • good afternoon
  • good day
  • How are you?
  • Ramadan Mubarak
  • Greetings and felicitations
  • Greetings and felicitations!
  • felicitation
  • Greetings and salutations
  • Salutation
References in periodicals archive
"I said 'excuse me, I don't want you to take this the wrong way but I just felt really awkward at the table and thought it would have been nice if you said good evening to me when I said good evening to you'."
Simon Cowell had a good evening too, with his programme The X Factor bagging best talent show.
The Good Evening Europe tour will start in the northern German city on December 2 and end at London s O2 Arena on December 22 -- 46 years to the day after the first Beatles Christmas gig in their hometown, Liverpool.
Katie Mundy 26, joint owner of the coffee house, said: "We try to make it really good, really fresh and just a really good evening. We know how good these lobsters are."
Louis has introduced baby foods called Good Morning and Good Evening. The new offerings are based on research on the benefits of feeding infants based on the time of day and their nutritional needs.
Louis-based stalwart, which has been in business since 1931, last month introduced an innovative line of all-natural baby foods, Good Morning and Good Evening, based on research on the advantages of feeding infants based on the time of day and their nutritional needs.
GOOD EVENING, HAND TOOL DEVOTEES, WELCOME TO ANOTHER EXCEEDINGLY STUFFY EPISODE OF HIGHBROW HAND TOOL THEATRE.
We usually have around 90 to 100 people and it's a jolly good evening.
In the three rectangles of a composition a la Rothko we read the simple greetings, "Good day," "Good evening," and "Good night." The communitarian bent of A Gentil Carioca thus strikes us as aptly served by an exhibition whose humble, familial sensitivity is most touching.
The days when everyone tuned in for a good evening of family entertainment by watching the Royal Command Performance are long gone.
Regulars at the weekly movie quiz in Highgate boozer Boogaloo were astounded to watch the ex Hear'Say singer's grinning face beaming down from a big screen to ask the tricky film poser: "Good evening Boogaloo, tonight's celebrity question is who wrote the original book that the film Rules of Attraction is based on?"
I laid down my knife and fork and said, `Have a good evening.' He went out.
Speaking after the match Eriksson saluted his team and said it had been a 'very good evening'.
Moderator: Good evening. Tonight Vice President A1 Gore and Texas Governor George W.
These include "Good Evening," a top-rated chat show hosted by popular presenter Kiril Ugolnikov.