Because, while there's a whole lot of holly jollying going on, there's also family gatherings to attend, gifts to buy and decorations to put up. It's enough to make anyone go Clark Griswold over ...

Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time … I inspected the gardens with another ‘chawmer’ & ended up by jollying the hostess ...

Check the duvet tog value. 'Mostly it's supervising what we would all do in warm weather and jollying him along, as Dad no longer realises for himself what changes need to be made to compensate for ...

Topsy-Turvy, concerning Gilbert and Sullivan and the creation of The Mikado, surprised even long-term Leigh admirers with its period detail and jollying musical numbers; Vera Drake dug deeper into ...

Dick Pope, who has died aged 77, was a twice Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose artistry and craft elevated the films of Mike Leigh as the latter expanded his filmmaking palette from the 1990s ...

The tone is generally one of mild encouragement, of jollying-along the reluctant participants in this most fraught of celebrations, as indicated by titles like “Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!” ...

He has shown no interest in jollying along the officials as even Sir Charles could in his more whimsical moods. He even knows he has backup. "They've got great players coming in and out ...

"Colman mirrors his emotional fragility," added Amber Wilkinson of The Times, "jollying him along while trying to wrestle down her grief at watching part of him leave. The sense of loss is acute ...

Jeremi Prybora said: ‘I was essentially interested jollying things up, in entertaining ourselves and our audiences by evading the grey, boring, ugly reality around us, the vulgarity and coarseness ...