Aid
Aid noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.
Good thing and aid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Good thing" instead a noun "Aid".
Good thing
Aid and good thing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Aid" instead a noun phrase "Good thing".
Both terms in one sentence
- The first book considered the fact an Islamic holy site and large parts of the Middle East being covered in Dreen mass, and America not sending aid, a good thing.
- In a sequel set almost twenty years later, Winston and Ray exploit this trope to once again get aid from the 2024 team, who claim that the message was lost behind a cabinet for several years, and good thing too, as it arrived before their first time using time travel.
Source: Write Back to the Future -
Of course, in the Destiny trilogy the upheaval they cause on New Erigol turns out to be a good thing, for once... Once for Yes, Twice for No: In Sword of Damocles, Torvig Bu-kar-nguv resorts to this when linked into the computer to aid repairs.
Source: Literature / Star Trek: Titan
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