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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Good for Anything Ripe for any sort of work. "After a man has had a year or two at this sort of work, he is good ... for anything." - Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, chap. xi. Not good for anything. Utterly worthless; used up or worn down. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Hamilton | Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. |
Thomas Carlyle | Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-g-h-i-n-n-o-o-o-r-t-y" | |
-5 letters: dragooning, gadrooning, nationhood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4F 4F 44 46 4F 52 41 4E 59 54 48 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 00100000 01000001 01001110 01011001 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G O O D   F O R   A N Y T H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004F 004F 0044 0046 004F 0052 0041 004E 0059 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41494938240495223548595442434841 |
| 1. Quotations: Familiar 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
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