jolly well
English
Adverb
- (Britain, dated, emphatic, sometimes humorous) Certainly, very well.
- 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven (page 122)
- "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:
- You jolly well deserved it.
- 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven (page 122)
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