fine and dandy

Idioms  

1. 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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fine and dandy

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?

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

The former Europe and North America editor shared the news on the podcast Beeb Watch, telling ex-colleague Roger Bolton he was "fine and dandy" but his voice was "rather strange and weak".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2022

Its message is a fine and dandy one, but it’s delivered not by Pony Express, but a herd of thundering buffalo.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022

Which usually would be all fine and dandy because all that requires is a simple majority and Democrats currently have the majority of 51 votes in the Senate.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2021

Me, I’m feeling fine and dandy; I won’t let no blubbery looks ruin what I got in mind for the morning, which is fix the boat, have lunch, then go fishing.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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