"Everything's tickety-boo" nghĩa là gì?
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"Everything's tickety-boo" -> nghĩa là mọi thứ suôn sẻ, thuận lợi.
Ví dụ
Something might have gone wrong and a review had been arranged. So far, so normal. Guildford Borough Council had shown they were well aware of the Sir Humphrey tactic of arranging a long-winded enquiry which ends up with, “Nothing here. Don’t know what all the fuss was about. Everything’s tickety-boo.”
Boyd and partner DCI Rose Leslie (the mighty Ygritte from Game Of Thrones) ask Luther a lot of questions, to which his answers are, in order, “No”, “No” and “Nope”. Before leaving, Boyd goes off the record: “Hey. You OK?” Luther’s answer? “Everything’s tickety boo. Totally disco.” When he grunts a whole sentence, it’s worth waiting for.
I lived in a bubble where it wasn’t affecting me. Much of our generation were very fuckin’ apathetic about politics, and then Blair got voted in, and we all thought ‘Fine, we’ve got a Labor government, everything’s tickety boo, everybody’s got a job and it’s not too bad and we can go raving every weekend.’
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