FINE AND DANDY Definition & Meaning

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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 “excellent”) today is more often used sarcastically in the sense of “not all right” or “bad,” as in You don't want to play bridge? Fine and dandy, you've left me without a partner .

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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.

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“I just like to think we’re somewhere in the middle. You know, we have our struggles — like of course I’m not gonna sit here and say that everything’s absolutely fine and dandy, because of course you go through different things, and that’s what a relationship is.”

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“You’ll carry on as if nothing was wrong, as if everything was fine and dandy?”

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As we saw in the aftermath of the insurrection, many of the people who stormed the Capitol didn't even think they'd face legal consequences, because the Republican normalization of political violence made them think their actions were just fine and dandy.

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It was fine and dandy to meet a bunch of people around the world as they faced weird happenings, but where were the creatures, the cool spaceships, the explosions?

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