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Examples
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You're not really supposed to jolly-up such a melancholy mission.
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You're not really supposed to jolly-up such a melancholy mission.
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It wasn't sport that these much-courted new supporters enjoyed; it was the Friday night jolly-up.
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People can't come here and think it's a jolly-up. "
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The economic situation being what it is these days, I think that's what they want: to go out and feel they've had a good jolly-up. "
madmouth commented on the word jolly-up
"It was very consoling, he thought, the way in which an act of kindness, in the fullness of time, returns to bless the benefactor. One gives a jolly-up to a girl in a ship. She goes her way, he goes his. He forgets; he has so many benefactions of the kind to his credit. But she remembers and then one day, when it is least expected, Fate drops into his lap the ripe fruit of his reward, this luscious creature waiting for him, all unaware, in the Malt House, Grantley Green."
-from Put Out More Flags
January 14, 2010