| 单词 | ja well no fine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasja well no fine South African. ja well no fine: used to indicate a non-committal, resigned, or ironic response or reaction; ‘alright’, ‘that's life’, ‘whatever you say’, ‘whatever’.Also as one word, jawellnofine. Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Historical Princ. (1996) at ja attributes coinage of the phrase to R. J. B. Wilson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1978, as the title of the radio series Jarwellknowfine. ΚΠ 1982 D. Kramer Short Back & Sides 57 They took the tray from the window, And I said ‘Was yours OK?’, And you said ‘Ja well, no fine’. 1990 Fair Lady (Cape Town) 21 Nov. 81 Charles tried to pluck up the courage to pop the question... He asked me just before dinner and I said something like ‘Ja well, no fine’. 2014 N. Dorman Guardian's Wyrd (e-book, accessed 4 June 2018) x. 124 I was getting really tired of being referred to as ‘boy’ but jawellnofine. < as lemmas |
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