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dear me
Idioms and Phrases
Also, oh dear . A polite exclamation expressing surprise, distress, sympathy, etc. For example, Dear me, I forgot to mail it , or Oh dear, what a bad time you've been having . These usages may originally have invoked God, as in dear God or oh God , which also continue to be so used. [Late 1600s]Example Sentences
Dear me, what a depressing season this has been for them.
But he became contemptuous of Boris Johnson, at one point saying "dear me, he really, really is awful" while being filmed after connecting remotely to a Covid meeting led by the then prime minister in 2020.
"Dear me, he really, really is awful," he said.
At first, she said, she thought: “‘Oh, no, dear me, I am a literary author.
With the cameras rolling, an S4C documentary recorded him saying: "Dear me, he really, really is awful."
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