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tickety-boo

/tik-i-tee-boo/US // ˈtɪk ɪ tiˈbu //UK // (ˌtɪkɪtɪˈbuː) //

滴答滴答,嘀嗒嘀嗒,滴答滴答的声音,嘀嘀嗒嗒

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly British Informal.

    • : fine; OK.

Examples

  • I started a blog called Boo Cancer, You Suck as a safe place for me to process what I was going through.

  • I could call him my “boo,” but when I tried it out he rolled his eyes.

  • We can thank Lisa Kudrow for the rise of celeb reality TV—Real Housewives, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and its ilk.

  • As quickly as Honey Boo Boo came, there she goes—even more quickly.

  • And just like that, on her “Frito feet,” there Honey Boo Boo goes.

  • This is better than frightening them out of their skins by jumping out from behind a door and saying "Boo."

  • Sometimes I don't get around till ten or eleven o'clock in the great boo-black dark.

  • Even the most reckless of gambling junkmen could not be expected to dare much of an investment in such a peek-a-boo game as that.

  • When the doorbell rang, half an hour later, Mr. Fielding was on his hands and knees playing "peek-boo!"

  • "And say 'Boo' to naughty little girls who won't let me complete my diary," shouted Brand.