Meaning of good value | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that is well worth the money paid for it.
2. Someone who is friendly and easy-going.
   Australia, UK, idiomatic, slang
3. Someone who is funny or witty.
   Australia, UK, idiomatic, slang

Examples

“it's not cheap, it's good value”

“It is no matter how high-priced a sheep is, just so he is a good value.”

“Moreover, today we meet Bridie in theatre far too seldom : he is a better value, and more likely to live in record, than the modish mayflies of our stage.”

“She is a good value at £594 in standard form, but a suitable 40 hp engine and a trailer would raise the total price to well over £1000 (Microplas Ltd., Homewood Road, Mitcham, Surrey).”

“1983, The Month, Issues 1384-1395, page 66, Audiences fill theatres where his work is staged. He is a good value. He never fails, which is not to say he always succeeds.”

“The announcement of the Railways Bill on November 5 included comments that rolling stock owning companies (ROSCOs) must provide good value for money.”

“He is a good value—earnest, sympathetic, solid to the bone and not overcomplicated—just the way you′d hope your undertaker would be.”

“‘Not anymore,’ she said, quickly ‘But he′s worth his weight in gold at a party. He always has something to say, and most of the time it′s interesting. That reflects well on me for inviting him.’ ‘He is a good value.’”

“Hugh Grant is always good value, and Martin Freeman and Joanna Page do very well as a couple who fall in love while working as stand-ins for what is apparently an expensively produced hardcore porn film.”

“Friday, 17 July 1981 Yesterday: morning with Germaine Greer – she is a good value, stimulating company and completely ridiculous: for the original feminist she is hilariously man-mad.”

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