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jolly goodBritish informal 1Very good or enjoyable: you’re free to have a jolly good time...- He'd had a jolly good breakfast.
- Even now we occasionally pull out the tapes we made at that time and have a jolly good chuckle to remind ourselves of how far she has actually come!
- The proposals seem to amount to two things: providing useful information, and putting on a jolly good citizenship ceremony.
1.1Very thorough: the desire to give a house a jolly good clean...- That was a jolly good job of reporting you did.
- She began to give me a jolly good working over.
- They have gone running like overgrown school sissies squealing to teacher about the boy they don't like in the hope that teacher will give him a jolly good thrashing.
2Used to express agreement or consent: jolly good, let’s press on...- Jolly good, that makes a nice change.
- "Jolly good," she says, moving on.
- "Jolly good, it's still working then."
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