Idiom
sweet Mary mother of God
Meaning
Used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Sweet Mary mother of God, look at that massive spider.”
“When the bill for the car repairs arrived, he whispered, sweet Mary mother of God, that is expensive.”
“Upon witnessing the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm, she gasped, sweet Mary mother of God, what have we done?”
Examples
simple
“Sweet Mary mother of God, look at that massive spider.”
contextual
“When the bill for the car repairs arrived, he whispered, sweet Mary mother of God, that is expensive.”
complex
“Upon witnessing the sheer scale of the destruction left by the storm, she gasped, sweet Mary mother of God, what have we done?”
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