a bit of all right Definition

all right
alright
adj

1. Unhurt; safe; feeling fine.

Thesaurus: uninjured, well, unhurt, safe, whole.
2. Just about adequate, satisfactory, etc.

Thesaurus: adequate, satisfactory, enough, tolerable, acceptable, passable.
3. colloq
Admirable; genuine; cool.
Example: an all-right kind of a guy
Form: all-right
4. Faultless, without error

Thesaurus: correct, exact, precise, accurate, right.

exclamation

1. Used simply as a greeting

Example: All right? How's it going?
2a. Used to signal agreement or approval;

Example: All right, you can go
Thesaurus: agreed, yes, OK, of course, surely, definitely, positively.
2b. slang
Used to signal great approval
Example: You got tickets to see Julian Cope? Awl right!
Form: awl right (sometimes)

adverb

1. Satisfactorily; properly.
2. colloq
Used to reinforce what has just been said.
Example: It's broken all right

Idiom: a bit of all right

colloq
Someone or something much approved of, especially someone good-looking or sexy
Example: Cor! He's a bit of all right!

Idiom: be all right with someone

colloq
To be agreeable to them.
Example: I'll see you at eight, if that's all right with you

Etymology: 19c.

Info:

A usage difficulty arises because all right is used at different levels of formality; in more casual use (eg in recorded conversation) it is often written as alright, influenced by words like almighty and altogether. The spelling is also influenced when all seems to be inappropriate in a particular context

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bit¹
noun

1. A small piece, part or amount of something.

Thesaurus: fragment, crumb, particle, jot, mite, trifle, scintilla, modicum, speck, pinch, moiety; Antonym: excess, lot.
(Brit)
2. old use
A coin, especially a small coin.
Example: threepenny bit
(N Amer)
3. 12½ cents (ie a quarter, a half, and three-quarters of a dollar, respectively). See also two-bit.

Form: two-bits (only)
Form: four bits
Form: six bits

Idiom: a bit

A short time or distance.
Example: Wait a bit

A little; slightly; rather.
Example: feel a bit of a fool

A lot.
Example: takes a bit of doing

Idiom: a bit much (a bit thick, a bit rich)

colloq
Behaviour that is unacceptable, unreasonable or unfair.

Idiom: a bit of all right

colloq
Someone or something very much approved of.

Idiom: a bit of rough

See under rough.

Idiom: a bit off

(rit)
colloq
Bad manners, taste or behaviour.

Derivative: bit on the side

See separate entry.

Idiom: bit by bit

Gradually; piecemeal.
Thesaurus: gradually, piecemeal, step by step, insidiously; Antonym: wholesale.

Idiom: do one's bit

colloq
To do one's fair share.

Idiom: not a bit (not a bit of it)

Not at all; not to any extent.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bita in obsolete sense ‘a portion of something bitten off at one time'; see bite.