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  • They are not excommunicated anymore, but things are far from hunkydory.

    The Pope offers a personal explanation 2009

  • Now you're all right, an 'everything's hunkydory an' the goose hangs high.

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

  • And we tell Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that everything is hunkydory.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • Similarly, because NGO Watch is open and honest about its prosecutorial functions, that too makes everything hunkydory?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew Sullivan on Human Rights Watch–Ignorance is Bliss 2009

  • Now all he has to do is drag out the ledger for the auditors to glance over and approve and everything will be just hunkydory.

    Anthony Watts at UCAR « Climate Audit 2007

  • With most folks the dog stands highest as man’s friend, then comes the horse, with others the cat is liked best as a pet, or a monkey is fussed over; but whatever kind of animal it is a person likes, it’s all hunkydory so long as there’s a place in the heart for one or a few of them.

    Will James (1892-1942) 1989

  • Now you're all right, an 'everything's hunkydory an' the goose hangs high.

    Chapter 17 1917

  • You jes 'shut up now, an' go to sleep, an 'you'll be all hunkydory in the mornin'.

    The Trail of the Meat 1906

  • "Now, ef you've jest got a cup about you we'll be all hunkydory," he laughed.

    Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

  • You jes 'shut up now, an' go to sleep, an 'you'll be all hunkydory in the mornin'.

    White Fang Jack London 1896

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