Idiom
good gracious
Meaning
Oh my God; expression of surprise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Good gracious, you are home early today.”
“Good gracious, I completely forgot that we had a meeting scheduled for this morning.”
“Good gracious, the sheer scale of the destruction left behind by the storm was enough to silence the entire crowd.”
Examples
simple
“Good gracious, you are home early today.”
contextual
“Good gracious, I completely forgot that we had a meeting scheduled for this morning.”
complex
“Good gracious, the sheer scale of the destruction left behind by the storm was enough to silence the entire crowd.”
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