nice going
idiom
—used in an ironic way to say that something someone did was stupid
You crashed her car? Oh, nice going.
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“Nice going.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nice%20going. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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