Sweet Jesus!

Sweet Jesus!

An exclamation of alarm, amazement, or exasperation. (Could be considered blasphemous to some.) Sweet Jesus, I thought that car was going to hit me! Oh, sweet Jesus, could you work any slower?
See also: sweet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sweet Mary, mother of Jesus
  • sweet Mary(, mother of God)
  • Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
  • what would Jesus do
  • sweet dreams
  • WWJD
  • sweet Fanny Adams
  • the sweet hereafter
  • come to Jesus
  • Jesus
References in periodicals archive
Sweet Jesus! For a moment she sees flashes of red light.
Honey was always there to listen to anything we kids laid on her, and her answer quite often was "Oh, sweet Jesus!"