jumping Jehoshaphat

English

Interjection

jumping Jehoshaphat

(US, dated) Used to express astonishment
- 1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas‎, London: Richard Bentley, page 100:
  By the jumpin' Geehosofat, what a gurl she air sure enuf!

Synonyms

(expression of astonishment): great Scott

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