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Idioms and Phrases

All right, excellent, as in �� 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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But fans will say all of that is fine and dandy - what matters is what happens between the ropes.

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"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.'"

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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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