fine and dandy

fine and dandy

Fine; good. The phrase is often used sarcastically. Sure, Saturday afternoon is fine and dandy—see you then. Well, that's just fine and dandy—my car won't start!
See also: and, dandy, fine
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fine and dandy

nice; good; well. Well, that's just fine and dandy. Couldn't be better. I feel fine and dandy, and I'm going to have a good time here.
See also: and, dandy, fine
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

fine and dandy

All right, excellent, as in What you're proposing is fine and dandy with the rest of us. This redundant colloquialism ( fine and dandy both mean "excellent") today is more often used sarcastically in the sense of "not all right" or "bad," as in You don't want to play bridge? Fine and dandy, you've left me without a partner.
See also: and, dandy, fine
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

fine and dandy

mod. nice; good; well. (Often sarcastic.) Well, that’s just fine and dandy. Couldn’t be better!
See also: and, dandy, fine
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

fine and dandy

Excellent. This redundant American colloquialism—fine and dandy both mean excellent—today is most often used ironically, for a circumstance that is far from excellent. Originally, however, in the early 1900s, it was stated straightforwardly, as in “‘Has she recovered from her fall?’ ‘Yes, she’s fine and dandy now.’”
See also: and, dandy, fine
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • dandy
  • fine by (one)
  • do fine for (someone)
  • do somehow for
  • fine with me
  • (that's) fine by me
  • (that's) fine with me
  • in fine
  • cut it fine
  • cut it/things fine
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"You know, we have our struggles - like of course I'm not gonna sit here and say that everything's absolutely fine and dandy, because of course you go through different things, and that's what a relationship is."
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Now this would have been all fine and dandy if Jon had not been within hearing shot, but he walked in just as Gos uttered his gaffe with a face which screamed `backstabber!'.
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The small business resurgence is fine and dandy, but what about the 27 million people so far dislocated by the ineptitude (and greed, argue Bluestone and Harrison) of the big companies?
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With which they told me North Yorkshire would have a fine and dandy bank holiday.
Raining on my parade
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We still have a lot to improve on, but that's good because you don't want to be going into a Connacht final, thinking everything is fine and dandy."
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All very fine and dandy being liberated and just playing your music - while having bank balances several figures long.
A BIG fan of U2
Don't even think about reading it unless all's fine and dandy in your world.
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