Idiom
goodness me
Meaning
An expression of mild surprise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Goodness me, you look just like your father.”
“Goodness me, I did not expect to see you at the grocery store today.”
“Goodness me, the sheer scale of the historical library was enough to take one's breath away.”
Examples
simple
“Goodness me, you look just like your father.”
contextual
“Goodness me, I did not expect to see you at the grocery store today.”
complex
“Goodness me, the sheer scale of the historical library was enough to take one's breath away.”
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