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I have a reading text like this: "by the evening, I think, so far so good. one day gone and no major problem". plz help me to understand this phrase "so good so far". thanks a lot.
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I have a reading text like this: "by the evening, I think, so far so good. one day gone and no major problem". plz help me to understand this phrase "so good so far". thanks a lot.
so far so good=succeeding or managing adequately to this point; doing well thus far or
at this stage of the process it is satisfactory.
Said of things that are not finished.

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plz help me to understand this phrase "so good so far". thanks a lot.

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so far so good is used when you want to say that an activity has gone well until now/so far

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