be jolly hockey sticks
be jolly hockey sticks
To act or speak in an enthusiastic but disingenuous or irritating way, especially when one is of a high social class. Lady Cartwright is always jolly hockey sticks, so I don't trust a word she says. I don't have the patience to be around people who are jolly hockey sticks all the time.
See also: hockey, jolly, stick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- hockey
- balls on about (something)
- bang on about (something)
- bang away about (something)
- needle (one) about (something)
- needle about
- a pain in the neck
- banana oil