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the job is oxo

the job is oxo phrase: everything is satisfactory; things are fine.

Phrase

the job is oxo

  1. (Ireland) Everything is satisfactory; things are fine.
    • Catch her in an emotional environment and if the chemicals of attraction are correctly and sensitively pestle mixed, the job is oxo.2005, Bryan MacMahon, Hero Town, page 131
    • I've no idea what they're going on about - it's all mahogany gaspipe to me - but next thing Brendan tips me the nod and a wink and gives me to understand that the job is oxo.1993, Colbert Kearney, The Consequence, Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 277

Questions about the job is oxo

What does the job is oxo mean?
The job is oxo means everything is satisfactory; things are fine.
What part of speech is the job is oxo?
The job is oxo is a phrase.

Words near the job is oxo in the dictionary

  1. The Hundred
  2. The Iliad
  3. the ink was not even dry
  4. the Internet never forgets
  5. the jig is up
  6. the job is oxo
  7. the job's a good 'un
  8. the joke is on someone
  9. the joke's on someone
  10. the jokes write themselves
  11. the jug goes to the well until it breaks

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