good gracious

good gracious

A mild exclamation of surprise, alarm, dismay, annoyance, or exasperation. Good gracious, look at the time! How is it nearly midnight already? Good gracious, Bill, would it kill you to take out the trash once in a while? Good gracious, that cyclist nearly hit me!
See also: good, gracious
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • do no good
  • a good look at (someone or something)
  • for good measure
  • be as good as new
  • do (one) a/the world of good
  • as good as it gets
  • (one) (has) never had it so good
  • (as) good as new
  • as good as new
  • come up to (one's) expectations
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As Holly, 36, noticed what was happening, she tried to remain calm and giggled: "Hang on, look what's going on." Phillip, laughing, said: "Good Gracious! Well I never.
Hey Holly, is that an adder in your tights?
However, before you could utter "good gracious" Ashley's lawyers were on declaring Mad Mike had been joking.
All a joke to Ashley - but I bet Pards isn't laughing
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'Oh good gracious!' says the ladybird (and perhaps young readers).
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"Good gracious me, I'd love every minute of this if we managed to do it again because I think it was so quick, so fast, so unique.
Holloway out to enjoy himself after beating early-season problems
Good gracious, I'd normally refer to it as daylight robbery, but with the recent crime figures which put Kirklees ahead of Bradford for robberies, then I'd be a little inaccurate.
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Good gracious, what's going on with our stock market is certainly such a huge gamble that sometimes we wonder whether we are winning or losing.
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Holloway said: "The way those boys played, good gracious me, I'm very proud of my team.
Football: Stear crazy; BRISTOL CITY 0 LEICESTER 2 STEARMAN 23, FRYATT 78 Holloway in dream start
"Oh good gracious no, I've only been called in to advise
Letter: Hospital closures a disaster for locals