English

Adjective

very good ‎(not comparable)

1. Used other than as an idiom: very good.

   This is a very good example.‎

   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

Phrase

very good

1. Used as acknowledgement of receipt of one's orders.

   - Find out if there's any claret in the cellar, Jeeves.

   - Very good, sir.