Idiom
tickety-boo
Meanings
in good order; fine; going smoothly
working properly; functioning without issues
Definition
If something is tickety-boo, it is working well and everything is fine.
Tickety-boo means that everything is in good order and there are no problems. People use it to say a situation is going smoothly or that something is functioning correctly. It is informal and is used mainly in British English.
Examples
- Don’t worry about the booking—everything’s tickety-boo.
- After the update, the app is tickety-boo again.
- We checked the accounts and it’s all tickety-boo.
- If the train times are tickety-boo, we’ll be there by six.
Common mistake
Learners sometimes use tickety-boo in very formal writing, but it is informal and best suited to casual speech or friendly writing.
More at C1 level
- Monday morning quarterback A "Monday morning quarterback" is someone who criticizes or judges a decision after the outcome is …
- close but no cigar Used to say someone almost succeeded but did not quite achieve the goal.
- come hell or high water Used to emphasize that you will do something no matter what difficulties happen.
- brass monkeys “Brass monkeys” is used in the phrase “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey,” meaning…
- get down to brass tacks To get down to brass tacks means to start talking about the most important, practical details of so…