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interj. (context idiomatic euphemistic dated English) oh my God.
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Goodness gracious is an English interjection expressing awe, dismay, excitement, or shock.
Goodness Gracious may also refer to:
- "Goodness Gracious" (Ellie Goulding song)
- Goodness, Gracious!: A Musical Portrait of Sophia Loren, album of film music of Sophia Loren
- Goodness, Gracious, 2009 album by band The Heligoats from Greyday Productions
- Goodness, Gracious, 2006 album by Blood Feathers
- Goodness, Gracious, album by Person L
- "Goodness Gracious", a 1967 song by James and Bobby Purify, B-side of "Shake a Tail Feather"
- "Goodness Gracious", a 1974 song (first released as B-side) and 1976 single by Kim Weston
- "Goodness Gracious", a 2001 song by The Lucksmiths, B-side of "Friendless Summer", re-released on Where Were We?
- "Goodness Gracious", a song by Jim Bianco from Handsome Devil
- "Goodness Gracious", a song by Kevin Gilbert from the album Thud.
- Goodness gracious, a poem by Margaret Mahy that appears in her anthology Seaside Poems (see List of works by Margaret Mahy)
"Goodness Gracious" is a song by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding from Halcyon Days (2013), the reissue of her second studio album, Halcyon (2012). The song was written by Greg Kurstin, Goulding and Nate Ruess. It was released as the third single from the reissue.
Usage examples of "goodness gracious".
Markleham, who usually contrived to be in a fuss about something, came bustling in, with her newspaper in her hand, and said, out of breath, 'My goodness gracious, Annie, why didn't you tell me there was someone in the Study!
On the face of it, to volt back to our desultory horses, and for your roughshod mind, bafflelost bull, the affair is a thing once for all done and there you are somewhere and finished in a certain time, be it a day or a year or even supposing, it should eventually turn out to be a serial number of goodness gracious alone knows how many days or years.