goodness gracious 的定义
- 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 of God, but these colloquial expressions, which date from the 1700s, are not considered either vulgar or blasphemous.
goodness gracious 近义词
等同于 gosh
等同于 whew
goodness gracious 的近义词 10 个
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- But he was always uncommonly gracious, a truly gentle man, willing to dispense wisdom and perspective when asked.
- At his Tucson hacienda he is a gracious host and a good neighbor.
- But my goodness, even the air around Oxford University is studious.
- All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop.
- That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
- And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.
- In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.
- Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.
- "I am sure there is no one I shall like half so well," said Isabel, truthfully; and Flora loved her for not being gracious.
- After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.