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fine and dandy
Idioms and Phrases
All right, excellent, as in What you're proposing is fine and dandy with the rest of us . This redundant colloquialism ( fine and dandy both mean 鈥渆xcellent鈥) today is more often used sarcastically in the sense of 鈥渘ot all right鈥 or 鈥渂ad,鈥 as in You don't want to play bridge? Fine and dandy, you've left me without a partner .Example Sentences
But fans will say all of that is fine and dandy - what matters is what happens between the ropes.
"In 2007, the manic pixie dream girl was all the rage, and that's all fine and dandy up until your roommate gets murdered, and then you just become an episode of 'Law and Order.'"
They tried a ghost of it, but also tanked so much legislation in the name of bipartisanship, which is all fine and dandy if you agree on basic human rights.
鈥淚 just like to think we鈥檙e somewhere in the middle. You know, we have our struggles 鈥 like of course I鈥檓 not gonna sit here and say that everything鈥檚 absolutely fine and dandy, because of course you go through different things, and that鈥檚 what a relationship is.鈥
鈥淵ou鈥檒l carry on as if nothing was wrong, as if everything was fine and dandy?鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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