"Be jolly hockey sticks" nghĩa là gì?

Photo courtesy Jason Milich.

'Be jolly hockey sticks' (cây gậy khúc côn cầu vui vẻ): miêu tả một phụ nữ hay cô gái thuộc tầng lớp xã hội cao, huyên náo, náo nhiệt khiến người khác khó chịu (used to describe a woman or girl of a high social class who is enthusiastic in a way that annoys most people).

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She is quite cold to begin with because she has been there for so long and then we come along all jolly hockey sticks trying to make things better and she is like, ‘Oh go away please!’.

After the initial shock of the energetic new woman, who cycled, fenced, swam and swung Indian clubs, the sporty type was established. She became a cult figure in contemporary school fiction – all very jolly hockey sticks. Her clothes reflected this cultural shift.

Angela Rippon is now 71 and makes shows about ageing. Conceptually this seems a bit of a stretch as Rippon is unchanged in 40 years: there is an air of the head girl about her, with a stern hint of the sphinx behind that jolly-hockey-sticks smile.

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