everything is copacetic

everything is copacetic

Things are fine, everything is going well. The adjective copacetic, for excellent, dates from the early 1900s (the OED’s earliest citation is from 1919), but its origin has been lost.
See also: copacetic, everything
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • bulletproof
  • cool!
  • sweet
  • sweeter
  • appropriate for
  • as (something) as the next man/woman/person
  • as as the next man
  • as good, well, etc. as the next person
  • as the next person
  • milksop
References in periodicals archive
Democrats, once they are up and running, may well have things to say, but for now everything is copacetic.