| 单词 | everything in the garden is lovely |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverything in the garden is lovely (also rosy) P4. colloquial. everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy): the situation is perfectly satisfactory; all is well.First used in the title and refrain of a music hall song (see quot. 1898), written for and popularized by the British music hall singer Marie Lloyd (1870–1922). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 1898 J. P. Harrington Everything in Garden's Lovely! (sheet music) And ev-'ry-thing in the gar-den's love-ly! 1899 Evening News (London) (Football ed.) 30 Sept. 2/5 The players are a happy and contented lot of lads, and give not the slightest trouble, so little wonder that ‘everything in the garden is lovely’. 1924 C. Mackenzie Old Men of Sea v. 71 The financial outlook's lovely. It's lovely, Mr. Marsham. Yes, everything in the garden's lovely, as Marie Lloyd used to sing. 1965 I. Nairn & N. Pevsner Sussex (Buildings of Eng.) Introd. 16 Not that everything in the Sussex garden is rosy. As the figures might indicate, the coast is almost gone. 1977 M. Frayn Alphabet. Order (rev. ed.) ii, in Alphabet. Order & Donkeys' Years 140 And now you've got it straight, and everything in the garden's lovely. 1992 Independent 29 Dec. 4/8 I do not want to give the impression that everything in the garden is rosy. It isn't. 2009 Guardian 4 July (Nexis) 12 If we insist on telling children that everything in the garden is lovely, we're doing them a disservice. < as lemmas |
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