| 单词 | all is gas and gaiters |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall (also everything) is gas and gaiters a. all (also everything) is gas and gaiters: everything is satisfactory; all is well.In quot. 1839 part of an extended comic passage in which the speaker, who is supposed to be of unsound mind, makes a series of nonsensical statements (requesting ‘bottled lightning’, ‘a thunder sandwich’, and ‘a fricassee of boot-tops and goldfish sauce’, among other things); subsequently taken up more generally from this passage in Dickens. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlix. 489 She is come at last—at last—and all is gas and gaiters! 1880 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 31 Aug. 6/2 The south will be paid for its slaves, the confederate debt will be assumed, confederate soldiers will be pensioned and all will be gas and gaiters. 1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xiii. 124 I've only got to get hold of dear old Stylptitch's Reminiscences..and all will be gas and gaiters. 1947 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xvi. 130 She said she was sorry she had been cross. I said ‘There, there!’ and everything is once more gas and gaiters. 2008 School Libr. Jrnl. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 99 Gentle messages abound, and all is gas and gaiters at the finish, with the constantly jeering Blue-Tongued Skink getting his comeuppance. < as lemmas |
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