"jolly-hockey-sticks" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From a catchphrase introduced in a BBC radio comedy programme, Educating Archie (1950)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jol1.htm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more jolly-hockey-sticks",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most jolly-hockey-sticks",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Caroline Upcher, Falling for Mr. Wrong",
          "text": "Polly couldn't abide Pat Walsh's bossy, jolly hockey-sticks manner and her curious predilection for calling absolutely everyone \"babe.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 122",
          "text": "We had to march along behind one of our mistresses — they were all very jolly hockey-sticks. March to church and then a lockstep turn about the park, everyone staring at us, knowing where we were from.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah diaries: the making of a film",
          "text": "There was a brigade of horsy women with enormous arses, moustaches and jolly-hockey-sticks ideas about everything walloping about in all directions, whose skins had weathered like leather and whose breath and hands always smelled of horse saliva and dung.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alison Bowyer, Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography, page 19",
          "text": "Boarding-school life was a lot like Mallory Towers or St Clare's, the fictional jolly-hockey-sticks schools created by Enid Blyton. 'We would have midnight feasts, and I suppose it was a bit like the Blyton books,' recalls Susan Lawrence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "athletic",
          "athletic"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "stereotypical",
          "stereotypical"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "British",
          "British"
        ],
        [
          "public school",
          "public school"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jolly-hockey-sticks"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From a catchphrase introduced in a BBC radio comedy programme, Educating Archie (1950)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jol1.htm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more jolly-hockey-sticks",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most jolly-hockey-sticks",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "jolly-hockey-sticks"
      },
      "expansion": "jolly-hockey-sticks (comparative more jolly-hockey-sticks, superlative most jolly-hockey-sticks)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Caroline Upcher, Falling for Mr. Wrong",
          "text": "Polly couldn't abide Pat Walsh's bossy, jolly hockey-sticks manner and her curious predilection for calling absolutely everyone \"babe.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 122",
          "text": "We had to march along behind one of our mistresses — they were all very jolly hockey-sticks. March to church and then a lockstep turn about the park, everyone staring at us, knowing where we were from.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah diaries: the making of a film",
          "text": "There was a brigade of horsy women with enormous arses, moustaches and jolly-hockey-sticks ideas about everything walloping about in all directions, whose skins had weathered like leather and whose breath and hands always smelled of horse saliva and dung.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alison Bowyer, Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography, page 19",
          "text": "Boarding-school life was a lot like Mallory Towers or St Clare's, the fictional jolly-hockey-sticks schools created by Enid Blyton. 'We would have midnight feasts, and I suppose it was a bit like the Blyton books,' recalls Susan Lawrence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "athletic",
          "athletic"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "stereotypical",
          "stereotypical"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "British",
          "British"
        ],
        [
          "public school",
          "public school"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jolly-hockey-sticks"
}