happy-go-lucky
adjective
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/ˌhæp.i.ɡəʊˈlʌk.i/ us
/ˌhæp.i.ɡoʊˈlʌk.i/Synonyms
Meaning of happy-go-lucky in English
(Definition of happy-go-lucky from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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happy-go-lucky
adjective
us
/ˈhæp·iˌɡoʊˈlʌk·i/Examples of happy-go-lucky
happy-go-lucky
All the figures, with thick lips and wide, happy-go-lucky grins (wholly inappropriate to the perilous mission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
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The media world, in which we are at home, is fleeting and happy-go-lucky; today, already, other images are making the news.
We cannot have this haphazard, happy-go-lucky cash allowance that we have now, running up at this rate.
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I say quite confidently that that happy-go-lucky way of dealing with storage is doomed to failure.
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We have been going on rather happy-go-lucky methods.
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The herring fishing industry has suffered acutely from the loss of its export trade, from depreciated currencies and the happy-go-lucky organisation of the industry.
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At present there exists a happy-go-lucky state of affairs, and the matter is one which, in my opinion, requires immediate attention.
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At the present time the method is far too happy-go-lucky.
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We came to the conclusion that it was to be a friendly, happy-go-lucky sort of place where people exchanged views.
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We are, of course, a very careless, happy-go-lucky people, but in wartime some pains are taken.
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But, happy-go-lucky fellows, some of them probably do not take the trouble to read it.
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They are, on the whole, a complacent, happy-go-lucky lot.
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The pendulum must sooner or later swing from permissive attitudes, the happy-go-lucky idea and wage chasing to high standards, and, with that, productivity and employment will rise.
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It simply goes on to stereotype the prevailing system of agriculture and the happy-go-lucky organisation which has produced the chaos into which they have now fallen.
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I know that many of my old comrades are in indigent circumstances, in some cases largely because of the happy-go-lucky and improvident way of the ex-service man.
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