0 a man, especially in the past, who dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes and was very interested in his own appearance -- (尤指旧时)讲究衣着和外表的男子,好打扮的男人
an upper-class dandy 上流社会的纨绔子弟
1 very good. This is often said as a joke when really something is not good or you are not happy about it -- 非常好的
Perhaps the fact of him being such a dandy sets me against him rather.
However, children would find it fine and dandy.
The dandy is, by occupation, always in opposition.
Later, as the word "dandy" evolved to denote refinement, it became applied solely to men.
His writing mocks vanity and the narrowness of materialism and his principal characters are mainly vagrants, thieves or dandies that subvert the order of an unfair society.
Was also known as a dandy and aesthetician, and a master of mystification both in his literary works and in real life.
Everything may sound fine and dandy, but there are problems.
The observer-participant dialectic is evidenced in part by the dandy culture.