"do well by doing good" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The origin is unknown; in use since the late 19th century. Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> well by doing good"
      },
      "expansion": "do well by doing good (third-person singular simple present does well by doing good, present participle doing well by doing good, simple past did well by doing good, past participle done well by doing good)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960, Albert D. Van Nostrand, The Denatured Novel, volume 3, Bobbs-Merrill, page 170",
          "text": "The sanctioning doctrine of Good Works has been at hand every since Benjamin Franklin canonized the Arminian Heresy. So Cash McCall, like his patron saint, does well by doing good.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, John Greenwald at al., \"Japan From Superrich To Superpower,\" Time, 4 July",
          "text": "Of course, like most aid donors, Japan does well by doing good."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 27, Matthew Bishop, “View from Davos: Bono marketing his red badge of virtue”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 2010-01-21",
          "text": "He wants companies selling Red products to make a profit by helping the poor—doing well by doing good.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To achieve social acceptance or financial success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-do_well_by_doing_good-en-verb-NTbI1qkA",
      "links": [
        [
          "social",
          "social"
        ],
        [
          "acceptance",
          "acceptance"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "benevolent",
          "benevolent"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To achieve social acceptance or financial success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "do well by doing good"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The origin is unknown; in use since the late 19th century. Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done well by doing good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> well by doing good"
      },
      "expansion": "do well by doing good (third-person singular simple present does well by doing good, present participle doing well by doing good, simple past did well by doing good, past participle done well by doing good)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960, Albert D. Van Nostrand, The Denatured Novel, volume 3, Bobbs-Merrill, page 170",
          "text": "The sanctioning doctrine of Good Works has been at hand every since Benjamin Franklin canonized the Arminian Heresy. So Cash McCall, like his patron saint, does well by doing good.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, John Greenwald at al., \"Japan From Superrich To Superpower,\" Time, 4 July",
          "text": "Of course, like most aid donors, Japan does well by doing good."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 27, Matthew Bishop, “View from Davos: Bono marketing his red badge of virtue”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 2010-01-21",
          "text": "He wants companies selling Red products to make a profit by helping the poor—doing well by doing good.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To achieve social acceptance or financial success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "social",
          "social"
        ],
        [
          "acceptance",
          "acceptance"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "benevolent",
          "benevolent"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To achieve social acceptance or financial success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "do well by doing good"
}