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Okay vs "done and dusted."

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Okay' is a common informal expression used to indicate agreement or acceptance. 'Done and dusted' is a more informal idiom meaning that something is completed successfully or satisfactorily.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 1032 views

Okay

This is a common informal expression used to indicate agreement or acceptance.

It is often used in casual conversations to show understanding, agreement, or acknowledgment.

Examples:

- Are you ready to go? - Okay, let's go.
- Okay, I understand what you're saying.

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Okay, so I broke the rules.
Okay, but they never were together.
Okay, Henry's asleep upstairs.
Okay, that's my Barney limit.
Okay, she went through something traumatic.
Okay, well, text georgina.
Okay, your obligation to Cuddy is fulfilled.
Okay, this conversation is moot.
Okay. Tell Mary to bring aersolity.
Chill and easy? Okay, Tony hawk.
Okay. This gives new meaning to anticlimactic.
Okay, right pupil is dilating.
Okay, donor heart looks good.
Okay, now real world version.
Okay, tell Quentin no opioids.
Okay, we understand you like muscles.
Okay, so, definitely not homeless.
Okay, nearing our era again.
Okay, Defense Secretary Maddox has slipped his leash.
Okay, there are three storage facilities nearby.

Alternatives:

Sure
Alright
Got it
Fine
Sounds good

"done and dusted."

This is an informal idiom meaning that something is completed successfully or satisfactorily.

It is used to emphasize that a task or situation has been finished and resolved.

Examples:

- The project is done and dusted, so we can move on to the next one.
- With the deal signed, that's it, done and dusted.

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Now I just want one more bally enormous push and we'll all be done and dusted.
Mr President, Commissioner, as you have explained, the issue of Chernobyl is by no means done and dusted.
Stoner leads by a second on that first lap, but it's not done and dusted.
We need to rekindle the Delors spirit of 1992 and ensure by the end of the century that a true single market is done and dusted.
As I have said in this House before, it would be a terrible mistake if we were to think that the problems in the Balkans, or in Afghanistan for that matter, were done and dusted.
Nevertheless, I consider it right and proper, because the impression might otherwise be created that, when we conclude the treaties with the candidate countries in 2002 - and I hope there will be ten of these treaties - everything will have been done and dusted.
It is only natural that new issues will arise from experience, which call for changes, innovations, and sometimes a questioning of matters that were believed to be done and dusted.
Many Members of this House and members of the Committee on Budgets will think that with Parliament's acceptance of the Kellett-Bowman report on matters relating to satellite agencies, the matter has been done and dusted.
There is a real danger of us assuming that, because we do not read as much about Afghanistan on the front pages of the newspapers, our job in Afghanistan is, as we would say colloquially in English, done and dusted.
Dinner's done and dusted without incident.
Should be done and dusted by the quarterly exec meeting.
We were all done and dusted by the time the nuns got onto Away In A Manger.
Well, that's her greatness done and dusted for the night.
In at nine. 50 quid we'll be done and dusted by 9:30.
If this isn't done and dusted before you leave the residence for that base tomorrow morning, then we divert the troop transport and cancel the event.
Only when you're done and dusted, I'd like the afterbirth to take down the allotment.
My question is this: you originally told me - I have all the information here and I do not suppose that you will question it - that it would be all done and dusted in 2001.
Let us get the whole matter done and dusted in double quick time!
You'll be done and dusted in an hour or two!
That has, in fact, been done and dusted; after all, what did we all do in this very Chamber two weeks ago?

Alternatives:

Completed
Finished
Wrapped up
Sorted out
Taken care of

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