jiminy crickets

Oh, jiminy crickets ! ! Oh, great summer coons up in the peach-orchard ! ! ! Yer ought ter see the feller what 's a-bringin' our bedstid.

1891, Effie Woodward Merriman, A Queer Family, page 77

"By jiminy!" Wesley leaped high and clapped his heels together three times before he came to earth. He seized Mareea and spun her round, kissed her, tousled her hair. "By jiminy crickets! You an' me an' a boy!"

1929, Sophie Kerr, Mareea-Maria, page 166

"Jiminy crickets, Bish!" exclaimed the Doctor, "what sort of hash are you and the Judge giving us? This isn't anybody's red-hot folk-lore society! Drop it all—can't you?

1912, Thomas A. Janvier, Beverly's Pneumatic Cat-Silencer

Some day, I feel like the old timer who once said, "Jiminy Crickets, hain't life changed since I was a boy?"

1992, Reba Young, Truman's Birthplace: Lamar, Missouri, page 27

Dave was telling Pierangelo something about the overall plot, and when the waitress accidentally spilled a drink on him, Dave abruptly shouted, “Jiminy Crickets!”

2011, John G. Stoffolano Jr., Tonino