| 单词 | great caesar! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreat Caesar! d. In exclamations, expressing surprise, amazement, annoyance, admiration, etc., as Great Caesar!, Great God!, Great Jove!, etc. Formerly also in euphemistic variant † Great Sun! (for Great God!) (obsolete). See also Great Scott int.Cf. use in other exclamations not using names, as great grief! at grief n. 8a, great guns! at great gun n. 3, great heavens at heaven n. Phrases 3b, great snakes! at snake n. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] goodness1623 agad1672 Godsokers1672 Oh dear!1694 law1763 lud1767 Dear me!1773 Lor1776 dear knows!1805 Great God!1819 Great Scott1852 Jehoshaphat1857 lors1860 Great Sun!1867 Great Caesar!1870 gracious me!1884 my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!1886 snakes1891 lieber Gott1898 my gosh!1920 cor1931 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] ahaa1400 ocha1522 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 gossea1556 ay me!1591 o (also oh) rare!1596 law1598 strangec1670 lack-a-day1695 stap my vitals1697 alackaday1705 prodigious1707 my word1722 (by) golly1743 gosh1757 Dear me!1805 Madre de Dios1815 Great Jove!1819 I snum1825 crikey1826 my eye1826 crackey1830 snakes1839 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 whoops1870 this beats my grandmother1883 wow1892 great balls of fire1893 oo-er1909 zowiec1913 crimes1929 yowa1943 wowee1963 Madre mia!1964 yikes1971 whee1978 chingas1984 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 129 Great God! on what a slender Thread Hang everlasting Things!] 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci i. ii. 11 Great God! that such a father should be mine! 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 567 Great Jove! a grateful spectacle—if thus May it be said unsinning. 1865 Memphis (Tennessee) Daily Argus 19 Nov. 3/2 Great Caesar! 1867 tr. Finette vii. 82 ‘By the great sun!’ he cried, ‘that is spoken like a lady.’ 1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 269 Great Caesar! Who are heathen, if the makers of this bread are not? 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. viii. 164 Great sun! I think I see it now. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xiii. 195 Great Jehoshaphat!..can't you see when a gentleman is on the stump? 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat vi. 81 Great Cæsar! man,..you don't mean to say you have covered over carved oak with blue wall-paper? 1920 E. M. Dell Top of World iv. viii. 504 ‘Donovan and I deceived Burke. He supplied the money and I put it back.’ ‘Great Jove!’ 1953 J. Thurber Let. 7 Dec. (2002) 604 He..gripped my arm, and said, ‘Great God, Jimmy, this is my 59th birthday’! 1984 T. Southern in Evergreen Rev. 98 154/1 ‘What in great devil!’ exclaimed the Plimp, startled into annoyance by the abruptness of my outcry. 2010 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 12 Oct. 6 He constantly screamed ‘Great Caesar's Ghost’. < as lemmas |
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