very well

very well idiom
  1. Exceedingly healthy, as in How are you?—Very well, thank you.
  2. Extremely skillfully or properly, as in He manages that sailboat very well.
  3. All right, I agree to, as in Will you take her hand?—Very well, but only to cross the street. Also see all very well.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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