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Goodness gracious me!
Meaning
- A slightly more dramatic or emphasized version of goodness gracious. It is often used when the speaker is flustered or particularly moved by a situation.
Flustered, affectionate
Used in a sentence
- Goodness gracious me, I completely forgot the keys were in my pocket.
- Goodness gracious me, that was a loud clap of thunder.
- I knocked the glass over and gasped, goodness gracious me.
The backstory
This is simply an extension of the classic goodness gracious, adding me to place the focus on the speaker's reaction to the event.
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