as good as

English

Adverb

as good as (not comparable)

1. almost, virtually, practically; tantamount to

   Sending the soldiers out into that blizzard was as good as murdering them!

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as,‎ good.
   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:

     On November 29 1952, a special train ran from Sunderland to Leeds for Christmas shoppers and those attending a Leeds vs. Brentford match. It caused controversy, with Sunderland traders protesting that their shops were just as good as those in Leeds.

Translations

almost completely

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 几乎 (zh) (jīhū)

• Danish: så godt som
• Dutch: zo goed als
• Finnish: käytännössä (fi)
• French: déjà (fr), pratiquement (fr), presque (fr), tout comme (fr)
• German: so gut wie (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: så godt som (no)

• Polish: prawie (pl), niemal (pl), równie dobrze
• Portuguese: praticamente
• Russian: всё равно́ что (vsjo ravnó što), почти́ (что) (ru) (počtí (što)), факти́чески (ru) (faktíčeski), практи́чески (ru) (praktíčeski)
• Swedish: så gott som (sv)