oll korrect

短语

别名

Oll Korrect

释义与例句

interj.
  1. 1.

    All right; okay.

    过时 习语

    It is a curious fact that the telegraph clerks in England and America employ the letters ‘O. K.,’ when they send a telegram that a message has been received Oll Korrect.

    "My Lord!" exclaimed Levin; "that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?"

词源

A deliberate, humorous corruption of all correct, dating from the 1830s, recognized as one of several possible origins for the term OK.

来源:wiktionary