jolly well

jolly well (not comparable)

1. (UK, dated, emphatic, sometimes humorous) Certainly, very well.

   You jolly well deserved it.

   • 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven (page 122)

     "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, OCLC 59891543, page 37:

     Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang... ‘That's beastly talk, Thompson. Jolly well take it back or expect a good scragging.’

   • 2022 April 6, Philip Haigh, “Passenger numbers increase... and freight must follow”, in RAIL, number 954, page 51:

     For most main lines, that's one or two extra trains every hour. "We jolly well ought to be able to encompass that on a lot of lines," he suggests.

• “jolly well”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.