Idiom
sweet Jesus
Meaning
Used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Sweet Jesus, that was a loud noise.”
“Sweet Jesus, I cannot believe how much work we have to finish by tomorrow morning.”
“Sweet Jesus, the sheer scale of the destruction left in the wake of the storm was truly difficult to comprehend.”
Examples
simple
“Sweet Jesus, that was a loud noise.”
contextual
“Sweet Jesus, I cannot believe how much work we have to finish by tomorrow morning.”
complex
“Sweet Jesus, the sheer scale of the destruction left in the wake of the storm was truly difficult to comprehend.”
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