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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Example Sentences

But fans will say all of that is fine and dandy - what matters is what happens between the ropes.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

“We have to fight about that stuff. That’s all fine and dandy, but we’re well on our way, and I feel really good about it.”

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

I don’t know … Twitter’s fine and dandy, but we’re here to just do what we do.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 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

“We’re just fine and dandy, thank you. And what work is it you do now?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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