Idiom
goodness gracious
Meaning
Expressing great surprise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Goodness gracious, you scared me!”
“Goodness gracious, I cannot believe you actually finished that massive project in only two days.”
“Goodness gracious, the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm was enough to silence even the most talkative members of the community.”
Examples
simple
“Goodness gracious, you scared me!”
contextual
“Goodness gracious, I cannot believe you actually finished that massive project in only two days.”
complex
“Goodness gracious, the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm was enough to silence even the most talkative members of the community.”
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