Meanings
prepositional phrase
alternative in thunderation
- idiomaticAn intensifier, chiefly used with questions.
At the time, however, I was only peevish, wondering what in thunder went on, for I had been in the place long enough to know that, next to the matron, the clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 7
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