Thursday 2nd June 2016
Tickety-boo \ [tik-i-tee-boo]
adjective, Chiefly British Informal.
1. fine; OK.
Quote
… that class of individual doesn't make mistakes. They simply go on. No balls-up
here, everything is tickety-boo. But, as you might have guessed, everything really
isn't tickety-boo.
Alan Furst, Spies of the Balkans 2010
Origin
Tickety-boo is of uncertain origin, but it may be an expressive alteration of the
phrase that's the ticket. It entered English in the 1930’s.
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