Meanings
- euphemisticrareEuphemistic form of sweet mother of Jesus.First known use 20th c.
“Sweet mother of Moses, inspiration has struck! I have a song! A new song for the play.”
2021 August 12, Bill Fitzhugh, A Perfect Harvest, Prelude Books, →ISBN, page 713 more examples
Sweet mother of Moses! she thought, viciously whacking apart Lorna Peterson’s latest bunch of proofs.
1947, Marjorie Holmes, Ten O’clock Scholar, J.B. Lippincott Company, page 15Sweet mother of Moses. Where does Mr. Hornsby get such crust? His own campaign practices have raised reasonable doubts about whether law outranks politics in the Alabama Supreme Court.
1999, Winthrop E. Johnson, Courting Votes in Alabama: When Lawyers Take Over a State’s Politics, Prescott Press, →ISBN, page 176Sweet mother of Moses. Now we’re gossiping about Piper? Are there any mature adults at this motherfucking university?
2015 April 28, Elle Kennedy, The Mistake, →ISBN, page 98
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