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my God



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, my goodness . Expressions of shock, surprise, or dismay, as in My God, don't tell me he's dying , or My goodness, what an awful outfit . The first term dates from about 1800; goodness in the variant is a euphemism for God .
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The ex-Portsmouth, Tottenham and West Ham manager replied: "No, don't go there. Oh my god, it was a joke, you know, that badly backfired. But it was only a joke."

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Later, filming himself in the apartment, he can be heard saying, “Oh my God, don’t hit me…Laura, why are you hitting me?” while she sits on the couch yards away, trying to ignore him.

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Around 1:15 p.m., she was on a three-way call with her mom and her best friend when they heard her cry, “Oh my God, he’s here.”

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And then another mom was like, “Oh my God, every time a bird comes out he says, ‘I like birds now.’”

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I was like, “Oh my God — we are the two stupidest human beings on the face of the earth.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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My Fair LadyMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?