bish bash bosh

English

Alternative forms

• bish-bash-bosh

Etymology

Expressive retriplication of bosh.

Interjection

bish bash bosh

1. (British, informal) Indicating the completion of a task with efficiency.
   • 2001 June 1, Gareth McLean, “I like your altitude”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Throw in a love story early on and you're laughing. Write it up as a novel and, bish-bash-bosh, you've got the next Captain Corelli.

   • 2007 August 8, Gerard O'Donovan, “Last night on television”, in telegraph.co.uk‎^[2], retrieved October 14, 2008:

     So infectious was Jamie’s trademark bish bash bosh enthusiasm that it may actually have been counterproductive.

Synonyms

• bada bing bada boom
• bingo bango

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “bish, bash, bosh; bish-bash-bosh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 164.