Idiom
holy fuck
Vulgar
Meaning
Expression of terror, awe, surprise, shock, etc.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Holy fuck, look at that massive spider on the wall.”
“When the car suddenly swerved into our lane, I shouted, holy fuck, and grabbed the door handle.”
“Upon witnessing the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm, she could only whisper, holy fuck, as the reality of the situation set in.”
Examples
simple
“Holy fuck, look at that massive spider on the wall.”
contextual
“When the car suddenly swerved into our lane, I shouted, holy fuck, and grabbed the door handle.”
complex
“Upon witnessing the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm, she could only whisper, holy fuck, as the reality of the situation set in.”
Origin
From *holy* + *fuck*. The expression is a dysphemism modelled after the earlier *holy shit*.
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