to good purpose
To effective use, as in A donation to the homeless shelter will be put to good purpose. This idiom was first recorded in 1553. Also see to little or no purpose.
Words nearby to good purpose
to burn,
to date,
to death,
to each his own,
to err is human, to forgive divine,
to good purpose,
to hand,
to heel,
to hell and gone,
to hell with,
to kill a mockingbird