so much the better in English

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{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "so much the worse"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
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      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist",
          "text": "Its business was to block change, not advance it, and if it thereby obstructed something he himself, as a very conservative fellow, disliked, so much the better.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That is or would be even better."
      ],
      "id": "en-so_much_the_better-en-phrase-~cyzMo6N",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tant mieux"
        },
        {
          "word": "all to the better"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "that is or would be even better",
          "word": "tant mieux"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "that is or would be even better",
          "word": "tantō melior"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "that is or would be even better",
          "word": "tym lepiej"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "so much the better"
}

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{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "so much the worse"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "so much the better",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist",
          "text": "Its business was to block change, not advance it, and if it thereby obstructed something he himself, as a very conservative fellow, disliked, so much the better.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That is or would be even better."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tant mieux"
    },
    {
      "word": "all to the better"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "that is or would be even better",
      "word": "tant mieux"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "that is or would be even better",
      "word": "tantō melior"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "that is or would be even better",
      "word": "tym lepiej"
    }
  ],
  "word": "so much the better"
}

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"so much the better" meaning in English

Phrase