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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a jolly time" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to have a fun and enjoyable experience. Example: We had a jolly time at the amusement park, riding all the roller coasters and eating cotton candy.
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To me it looks like he's having a jolly time.
We had a jolly time talking about art.
Adams agrees that once the story got out they had a jolly time.
Plato presents both men as having a jolly time together in the "Symposium".
You're spoilt for choice – if you want a jolly time howling to cheesy Austrian pop.
In the face of a really awful situation, actually getting on with it and almost having quite a jolly time.
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If you're game, he'll show you a rude, jolly time in a universe at once fantastic and familiar.
Christmas ends up being a perfectly jolly time with "a great deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant" – even if Marmee has given away the Christmas breakfast to a poverty-stricken family who will later infect and nearly kill Beth with scarlet fever.
It's also small and every page is a jokeful, jolly time that proves Tom is a funny guy with ideas. .
Lots and lots of very English people having a very jolly time indeed.
The Tories (along with the tabloids and UKIP) are having a throughly jolly time insinuating that Labour cares more about Britain's celtic fringe than it does about its English core.
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