be OK
be OK
To be fine; to be not especially good or bad. A: "How have you been?" B: "Oh, I've been OK." These fries are OK, but they're not the best I've ever had. I don't know what everyone's raving about it—I thought that movie was just OK.
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(I've) been okay.
Inf. a standard response to a greeting inquiry that asks how one has been. Bill: Well, how have you been, good buddy? John: I've been okay. Sue: How you doing? Jane: Been okay. And you? Sue: The same.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
"We think at this point Aron will
be OK for the start of the season," said Mackay.
As its origins are in Christianity, my faith should
be OK with it, but the modern church is not, and goes to great lengths to warn congregations about it.
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