The phrase "a good yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard or measure by which something is judged or assessed.
Example: "The success of the project can be measured by a good yardstick of customer satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a reliable measure" or "an effective benchmark."
"It will be a good yardstick for us," he said.
A good yardstick is if you wouldn't lend the person your own money, then don't act as guarantor".
"He beat a good yardstick in Splash Of Ginge so it is solid form and it was easy enough to ride him.
Mr Wallison reckons rents are a good yardstick: house prices that rise in line with rents make sense, since both are a sign of high demand.
Currency devaluations muddy the waters, but Hong Kong, with the statistical clarity of an unchanged currency, is a good yardstick: Malaysians are spending half what they did a year ago, Indonesians and Thais two-thirds, Singaporeans and Filipinos three-quarters.
As the largest and most comprehensive university of the State University of New York's 64 campuses, Buffalo is a good yardstick for measuring just how far New York has traveled — yet how short it has fallen from Nelson A. Rockefeller's vision of creating a premier public university system.
They were also 0.52 times as likely to have kids (although other studies have shown that having kids is not a very good yardstick for measuring well-being).
They were also 0.52 times as likely to have kids (although other studies have shown that having kids is not a very good yardstick for measuring wellbeing).
"I think two really good yardsticks are the following," he explains.
This is a good if possibly superficial yardstick for measuring museums' alertness to new art.
Putting aside the apparent arbitrariness of the 50 percent new customers or bust yardstick, DW raises a good point when he suggests businesses — to the extent they can figure it out — ought to consider carefully how many of their vouchers go to new customers.
