Expressão: A-OK em inglês

A-OK

Tudo ótimo/Totalmente bom/certo/ correto ou satisfatório, perfeitamente em ordem. 

É mais enfático do que simplesmente usar OK. Seu uso iniciou nos anos 60, sendo um termo originalmente dos astronautas, quando tudo estava perfeito nos comandos. 

• Everything will be A-OK.

• We took the car in for a , and it was A-OK.

• John: How're you Mary?
  Mary: I'm A-okay!

• The doctor says I'm A-OK now, that there's absolutely nothing wrong with me.

• The doctor said it was A-OK to discontinue the medicine.

• On August 1, a proud papa in London, England, who goes by the social media handle Paymaker, posted an image on Imgur of his just-born daughter flashing an A-OK sign with her middle finger and thumb, all while resting skin-to-skin on her mother's chest. [handle: nome ou apelido]

• The university administration argues that participation rates in Ontario and Alberta – two of the several provinces that experienced massive increases over the past ten years or so – haven't gone down, proving everything is A-okay.

• In the 1950s, Richard Nixon visited Brazil at a time when there was widespread hostility there to the US, and added fuel to the fire with a single innocent act. What did he do? He stepped off the plane and flashed the 'A-OK' sign to the waiting crowd, effectively telling the whole nation to go screw themselves, who responded (reasonably enough in the circumstances) by booing. The next day a photograph of the gesture was plastered all over the newspapers. [to plaster: mostrar, exibir]

• Babies with three parents? Bioethicists say that's A-OK. The procedure is known as mitochondrial replacement therapy. To do it, doctors take a donor egg containing healthy mitochondria and remove its nucleus. They then replace it with the nucleus from one of the mother's eggs and use sperm from the father's egg to fertilize it. The resulting embryo gets the majority of its genetic information from its parents and a tiny amount, 0.1 percent, from the donor egg.

• Everything's been going A-OK since Jack got home.

• The party went off A-OK.

• The plan's going A-OK.

• The blood sample proved A-OK, but a following ultrasound scan showed a discrepancy in the size of the fetus.

• I mean, I'd have felt a bit guilty for ordering a sandwich with a pile of fatty, fried bacon, but somehow ordering a club sandwich makes it feel A-OK.

• I took care of some spots that have been water collection areas and all should be A-OK moving forward.

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