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goodness gracious
Idioms and Phrases
Also, good gracious ; gracious sakes . Exclamation of surprise, dismay, or alarm, as in Goodness gracious! You've forgotten your ticket . Both goodness and gracious originally alluded to the good (or grace) of God, but these colloquial expressions, which date from the 1700s, are not considered either vulgar or blasphemous.Example Sentences
I wish to goodness gracious that PBS were in a position to do that.
"One more game, one more push," said Goodness Gracious Me actor Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Cassandra Loftlin, a chef, recipe developer and co-founder of Goodness Gracious Grocery, has done a lot of work in the food education space, including writing recipes specifically for children, and has seen firsthand the impact it can have on students.
Katie Hafner: So Lillian, oh my goodness gracious.
She made her name writing 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach and as part of sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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