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Meanings of dandy in English
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
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Examples for "great"
Examples for "great"
1
Thank you Ireland: it's a great day, for Ireland and for Europe.
2
With that cherished right to vote, however, comes a great personal responsibility.
3
It's a great way to start the new year. -FieldLevel Media
4
Today is a great day for the future health of Australian children.
5
The great problem at Yosemite today is simply finding your way around.
1
Given the opportunity, and state government intentions, they're keen to encourage visitors.
2
Europe in particular will be keen to near-source as much as possible.
3
He said companies were extremely keen to take on the new technology.
4
Our group is really keen to challenge themselves and accept the challenge.
5
Of course I am. The Nationals' coalition partners are certainly not keen.
1
So wouldn't it be neat to do year four and year five?
2
As neat a solution a Vickers-style plan might be, questions nonetheless remain.
3
Seconds later, a waiter came over to take Favor's order: whiskey neat.
4
Very neat, I understand, though I've only seen it from the water.
5
It's a neat solution to the transmission problem, I'll give them that.
1
Real swell customer, great credit history, just a screwup down in records.
2
Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
3
The ship was still rolling heavily in the swell after the gale.
4
What surprised me, however, was the huge swell of support for Kick-Ass.
5
Squire must be thinking of that right now in this deeper swell.
1
Turkey has also been cracking down on Islamic State networks at home.
2
I've gotten fined a number of times for cracking rackets, she said.
3
I hope we can keep cracking on, into the future for ever.
4
If Sants really is serious about cracking down on wrongdoers, that's welcome.
5
Try a cuticle oil and keep your hands moisturized to avoid cracking.
1
Otherwise, Vladimir Putin may conclude he can bully countries inside the EU.
2
But I shall deny him the chance to bully me in public.
3
On that Twitter fight, Badu said, I just had to bully control.
4
Until one day, Felicity told the bully 'enough' and it all stopped.
5
Only social media makes it possible to bully on such a scale.
1
There may be magnificence in the smashing; but the thing is smashed.
2
In the latest demonstrations, some attacked the National Assembly building, smashing windows.
3
The Wardens' chain of command is a smashing disaster at the moment.
4
Furthermore, the final polls accurately predicted the smashing of Scotland's political mould.
5
He tried to open the frame, and succeeded in smashing the glass.
1
Punters with nifty footwork should, thus, find the package pretty good value.
2
He is going to require some nifty footwork in the weeks ahead.
3
Last week, Microsoft unveiled a very nifty video of its latest technology.
4
Do the SEALs have some nifty new weapon for taking out sharks?
5
Marchessault tied the game following a nifty sequence late in the third.
1
She was sure she'd wake up the following morning feeling peachy dandy.
2
If that's the way he wants it, then that's just peachy fine.
3
Now, I've never been there myself, but I hear it's just peachy.
4
Trust me, the rest of the album is as peachy as this.
5
It was a soft peachy-pink silk that flowed easily from the shoulders.
1
All the beautiful people, the flower people, the good and groovy people.
2
The new gals even have groovy intruder names: Deanna, Brittney and Jamie-Lee.
3
Protesters professed being on a freedom high as well as feeling groovy.
4
And it is a groove; perhaps there was never anything so groovy.
5
My friends are all groovy-looking types with long hair, beads, flowered polyester.
1
Tell me; what's the premium now for a corking post like this?'
2
He floundered in a sea of real revue, stunts, and corking effects.
3
Roland, meanwhile, was reading with horrified eyes the alleged corking Scandal Page.
4
A corking baseball story that fans, both young and old, will enjoy.
5
I'll get these interviews, and it'll make a corking good second-day story.
1
Pain's not bad right now. But it was clearly not good, either.
2
Money is not bad in itself; wealth is not bad in itself.
3
To invade this world is not bad breeding; it is social sacrilege.
4
The personal appearance of the men of this tribe is not bad.
5
He had to start thinking about it as good luck, not bad.
1
You take me somewhere where we can get a regular slap-up lunch.
2
You're such a slap-up dude you'd ought to be a hotel clerk, cap.
3
You had a slap-up dinner, you're three pounds to the good, and everyone is satisfied.
4
I could furnish a place in slap-up style to-morrow.
5
The chap who'd owned the 'ouse before 'er father 'd been a regular slap-up burglar.
1
When he starts in he finishes up a job in bang-up style.
2
I must say though, Bertie is doing a bang-up job of it.
3
Says you're doing a bang-up job with the wraiths on your own.
4
Yes, and you did a bang-up piece of work, you and Big-foot.
5
I've often worked out many a puzzle while having a bang-up smoke.
Usage of dandy in English
1
Which was just dandy keeno fine as far as she was concerned.
2
She was sure she'd wake up the following morning feeling peachy dandy.
3
In areas where there's no pesticides, they'll turn out fine and dandy.
4
Ye look right a dandy in blue silk doublet and slit pantaloons.
5
The dandy of the clubs had become a perambulating mass of rags.
6
The shining dandy she'd first met in Klein's plastic garden had gone.
7
Day two and things were dandy by the banks of the Guadalquivir.
8
He was in no mind to discuss Joan with this inquiring dandy.
9
Even if we lose the patient it will be a dandy operation.
10
It is unfortunate only to be living in this dandy time .
11
He disliked the dandy with a strong predisposition to like the man.
12
The young dandy will find certain laws to which he must conform.
13
It was a dandy row, and it was siventeen arrists we made.
14
And he showed me around some dandy places before I got wise.
15
The world is full of dandy girls, but wait till we appear-
16
My last stroke was a dandy, if I do say it myself.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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