JUST SO

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a careful manner

Example:

you must treat this plant just so

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Context examples:

They vas packed all round, the folks was, but down through the middle of ’em was a passage just so as the gentry could come through to their seats, and the stage it vas of wood, as the custom then vas, and a man’s ’eight above the ’eads of the people.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After a proper resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve her from that reproach which she always seemed fearful of incurring, the reproach of being too amiable, Edward was admitted to her presence, and pronounced to be again her son.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And come to think on it, it was like Flint's voice, I grant you, but not just so clear-away like it, after all. It was liker somebody else's voice now—it was liker—

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Just so, ma'am—and relating what I knew.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This attack of his on the established had seemed to her just so much wilfulness of opinion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Venus is your ruler, and will remain in your home sector until December 19—this is significant for it tells me how determined you will be to get things just so.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Just so: I think so: and you shall be answerable for it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He read on: Then it was that—HEEP—began to favour me with just so much of his confidence, as was necessary to the discharge of his infernal business.