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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dear chaps" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a friendly or affectionate way to address a group of male friends or colleagues.
Example: "Dear chaps, I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the weekend."
Alternatives: "dear friends" or "my dear fellows".
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My dear chap, I'm so glad.
"My dear chap," retorted Elliott disapprovingly.
"My dear chap, not another word, I promise".
"Mr Tinker," he snipped, "do you realise you single-handedly closed my Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?" Jack, unfazed, "My dear chap!
On hearing that he came from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the interviewing officer said, "My dear chap, you're just the type.
"But being the kind of guy he was, Kenneth Rowntree [the then professor of art at Newcastle University, the home of the Hatton Gallery] simply said to Mr Pierce: 'My dear chap, we'd be delighted,' and no questions asked".
In THE BRUTAL TELLING (Minotaur, $24.99), the dear chap who owns Olivier's Bistro is revealed to have a cutthroat business streak that may have something to do with the old hermit who's found dead one morning on the bistro floor.
I reply with true British phlegm: "Why, my dear chap, it's just that being a guide, you know, doesn't mean being a little Napoleon, or a little Tojo for that matter, ha ha, if you know what I mean, old bean".
Dear, dear, dear.
My dear young chaps!
Alexander's ragtime band!") NORDSTRUM (singing with a deep bellow at the same time): "Oh you bootiful doll, you great big bootiful doll!" MAJOR (his hands over his ears, trying to make himself heard in protest): My dear young chaps!
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