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as good as go

[as good as go] {adv. phr.}

In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as good's do this," for, I may as well do this. Only heard among the illiterate.

Source: Dictionary of Americanisms

by John Russell Bartlett

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