jiminy cricket

jiminy cricket

A minced oath for "Jesus Christ," expressing surprise, shock, or astonishment. Jiminy cricket, the bill for that dinner is nearly $200! We won the lottery? Jiminy cricket, that's amazing news!
See also: cricket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bodkin
  • odds bodkins
  • odd's bodkins
  • holy crap on a cracker
  • holy crickets
  • holy mackerel
  • Holy mackerel!
  • moley
  • Holy moley!
References in periodicals archive
He plays, you've guessed it, Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's conscience.
Fandabinosey; Kids? Don't you just love 'em. Take them to the panto and they say the best bit was a cheap plastic laser wand. Mum Liz Gallacher reports from Pinocchio
Lion King, Jiminy Cricket, Mickey & Minnie, and Mulan |
A world of incredible characters; An ice-cool show of everything we love about Disney (...except maybe for Frozen) opened at the Metro Radio Arena last night. DEBBIE WARD and family had a ball. An ice-cool show of everything we love about Disney
I owe a lot to that cultured writer, a culinary Jiminy Cricket during the food festival.
Blown away by Brescia; They say a surefire way to a man's heart is through his stomach. MIKE LOCKLEY is seduced by Brescia
Names like Edgar Buchanan, Irene Ryan and Cliff Edwards are probably not familiar to most people, but Uncle Joe (from Petticoat Junction), Granny (from Beverly Hillbillies) and the voice of Jiminy Cricket sure are.
Kevin Buck Releases New Book, "Looking for Miss Crabtree"
Back in the 1950s, Walt Disney's educational films starring Jiminy Cricket introduced the idea that short, single concept movies for children could be an effective, efficient, and appealing way to learn.
Jiminy Cricket revisited: a dozen ways video can activate learning
Cliff Edwards, the voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket, was Ukulele Ike in an earlier incarnation.
Strumming her way to stardom
Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 1993; 2 Almond; 3 Neither pairQ of sides are parallel; 4 Swaziland; 5 Antarctica; 6 Peterborough; 7 Yuri Andropov; 8 Why Do Fools Fall In Love; 9 Jiminy Cricket; 10 The concertina.
Quiz of the Day
Jiminy Cricket's Environmentality Challenge began in 1994 for 5th graders in California.
Disney's Planet Challenge: by kids, for kids--and their world
My husband took me on the kid-friendly Star Tours where I turned greener than Jiminy Cricket.
Third time is truly a charm at Disney
Stop second-guessing your killer intuition and give Jiminy Cricket a listen.
Love yourself! Be your own Valentine! Here are 15 itty bitty ways to show yourself the love all gear lone
government grants, the wholehearted support of my Case colleagues, and Henry sitting on my shoulder like a professional Jiminy Cricket, part adviser/part cheerleader, in 1976 Case and the University of Western Ontario, established CUSLI, that is, the Canada-U.S.
Henry King remembered
But before you could say "Jiminy Cricket", Cameron was dominating the television screens in fear that Hannan's outburst would leave the impression among voters that the Tories would be happy to ditch the NHS.
Cameron fear of colleagues
Most music you just have to sit and listen to, but in yours there is question and answer, almost like Pinocchio with his Jiminy Cricket. The puppet is always making mistakes, causing others grief, sinning.
The puppet and the cricket
After all, the kids had virtually been brought up on boats and the family had already sailed in the 350 nautical mile Montague Island Race in Tauchwoodand won the historic Captain Rowntree Cup in the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's offshore regatta in their previous boat, the half tonner Jiminy Cricket.
Down the rhumbline: Brooker family affair in the 1978 race to Hobart
Disney's Contemporary Resort's Earth Day Celebration will showcase new and ongoing environmental projects for 2008 and offer a photo opportunity with Jiminy Cricket, the mascot of Disney's Environmentality.
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