good job

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Interjection

good job

1. (idiomatic) Well done; congratulations!

   If you hadn't hit that last ball, we would have lost. Good job!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:well done

Translations

a phrase used to praise for a good job or efforts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 做得好 (zuò de hǎo), 辛苦 (zh) (xīnkǔ) (stock phrase when thanking someone for the job)

• Czech: dobrá práce
• Dutch: goed gedaan, goed zo (nl), goed bezig
• Finnish: hyvin tehty
• French: bon travail, bien joué (fr)
• Japanese: ご苦労様でした (ごくろうさまでした, go-kurō-sama deshita) (stock phrase when thanking someone for the job)
• Malay: syabas
• Polish: dobra robota
• Russian: хоро́шая рабо́та (xoróšaja rabóta), молоде́ц! (ru) m (molodéc!)
• Serbo-Croatian: svaka čast
• Spanish: buen trabajo
• Swedish: bra jobbat
• Vietnamese: làm tốt lắm

Noun

good job (plural good jobs)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good,‎ job.
   • 1944 March and April, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: VIII—Sir H. N. Gresley”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:

     He seemed to share my disappointment, but was kind enough to say, "You made a good job of it and it deserved a better fate," [...].

2. (idiomatic, British) a good thing.

   It's a good job that he was there to catch the vase when I dropped it.

   Good job Sarah isn't scared of spiders: I don't think I could cope without someone to remove them.

Translations

a good thing

• Finnish: hyvä juttu
• Russian: хорошо́ (ru) (xorošó)
• Traditional Chinese: 讚讚讚／赞赞赞 (zàn zàn zàn)

See also

• job's a good 'un