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dory
noun
A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
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I'm relieved everything is so hunky dory in the health service that he can spare the time to kvetch about what Vicky Pryce puts on her stationery but I suspect the "vast majority of the public" are more scandalised by dodgy hospital death rates.
By the time The Full Monty came to the club, what Howden and others see as the halcyon days of the 1960s and 70s – when "everything was hunky dory" and "you got shifts, did work, came out, went for a drink" – were long gone.
If the economy does start to recover later this year or next, the supposedly ruinous disappearance of the budget surplus will have had a lot to do with it.This is not to say that everything is hunky dory in budget-land.
In the most impressive of those works, Fog Warning (1885), night is falling, fog is rolling in, and a lone fisherman in a dory calculates the distance and the time remaining for him to get back to his home ship in safety.
Suddenly, after weeks of worry and heartache it is all hunky dory on the Kevin front again.
This is the idea that we have to get back on track, that doing so will be painful, but that when we do all will be hunky dory.
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"Once the relationship was repaired, it was much easier for this channel to flourish," the source said.All very intimate and hunky-dory.
Education scores are up.Things are not all hunky-dory.
"I think the idea that everyone is hunky-dory with what's going on is wrong.
My first 'headphones under the covers' moment came at about 3.15am when England were on top, the Aussies struggling at 135 for 6. Tuning in again when the alarm went ping at just after 6 o'clock, all still seemed hunky-dory.
I just thought I can make things and everything will be hunky-dory".
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