good God

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,mildly blasphemous,dated)Expression ofsurprise,outrage, orhorror.1724,Jonathan Swift,A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer, Upon Occasion of a Paragraph in His News-Paper of Aug. 1st. Relating to Mr. Woods's Half-Pence, page 9:Good God! Who are this Wretch’sAdvisers?1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, inFrancesca Carrara.[…], volume II, London:Richard Bentley,[…], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page73:“Young lady, there is no hope; one side of the Duchesse is struck with palsy; she retains her senses, and will, most probably, to the last; but she cannot live through the night.” / “Good God!” exclaimed Francesca; “and the Duc de Mercœur left Paris this morning!” For a moment all command over herself was lost, and she sank on a seat, sick and faint with sudden agony.1885,Robert Louis Stevenson,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde:"Good God, sir," exclaimed the officer, "is it possible?" And the next moment his eye lighted up with professional ambition. "This will make a deal of noise," he said.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary