all the better

idiom

variants or so much the better
used to say that something makes a situation, experience, etc., even better than it was
My daughter loves taking care of children. If she can earn money by doing it, so much the better!

Examples of all the better in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When they get stuck in a traffic jam — all the better for Hall to waaayyyyyy stretcccchhhh ouuuuuutttt this limp gimmick — things get serious. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 June 2024 Completely illogical, but all the better for it, is the first product of that collaboration. Brett Berk, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2024 Every other member of the Vandals looks like a factory worker or a genuinely feral fringe-dweller on a bender, all the better to immerse you in this Kodachrome time capsule. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024 Speed equals pressure in baseball, and if it’s deployed with minimal risk at moments when a single run looms large, all the better. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024 Perfect for wedding guests and all the better for lovely warm days ahead. Madeline Fass, Vogue, 14 June 2024 But as the Great Depression pushed more economists to follow the lead of John Maynard Keynes and develop models of the national economy (all the better to plan it), the Geneva School economists had a change of heart. Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019 The original statuette was made of fairly lightweight brass (all the better for administering fatal blunt-force trauma) and featured three arrows in its quiver, symbolizing the three arrows necessary for a good love match (looks, money, and personality). Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024 That was the point—in the books, Penelope finally starts choosing clothes without her mother's influence and is all the better for it—but still, the contrast between seasons is startling. Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 3 May 2024

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“All the better.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20better. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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