Meanings
alternative goodness gracious me · alternative oh, my goodness gracious · alternative oh my goodness gracious me · alternative oh, my goodness gracious me
- datedeuphemisticidiomaticOh my God.
Oh, my goodness gracious me! where was I? Where was Robert? To happen to me, a sort of prudish old maid, who kept her house so strict!
1865, “Patty Resumes Her Vocation”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal, volumes 13-14, page 5511 more example
"Oh, my goodness gracious! who'd have thought it? Oh, my soul and body!" exclaimed Ben, dropping the cover, and jumping up with a perfectly absurd look of ...
1861, Henry Mills Alden, “The Debatable Baby”, in Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 22, number 132, page 776
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