2012年10月1日 · Oh dear; Oh dear me; Oh dear God; Oh God; Oh yes; Oh no; Oh crap; Oh hell; Oh shit; Oh fuck; Longer ones: Oh no you don’t; Oh for goodness’ sake; Oh my goodness; Oh …

2011年1月27日 · Oh, Dear god! to avoid blasphemy. This makes sense as it is an admonishment. Or the other possibility is that 'Dear' was another name for god, like 'the Almighty' or 'the Lord', …

2016年11月18日 · An "Oh, Shit!" moment is the perfect way to capture this, but I need it for formal correspondence where the vulgarity is unprofessional. Here's an example of the sentence I …

2011年3月15日 · You could also say it this way: "how do you do" back has been replaced with an equally meaningless reply. It is just an exterior change of convention; etiquette demands that …

2014年3月5日 · The phrase "Oh for fuck's sake" is sadly all too commonly heard around my office. I'm trying to teach myself comedic alternatives such as "Oh sausages!", but that just makes …

According to Wikipedia, thesaurus derived from Latin and meant “treasure store”. So assuming the first half of the word is treasure, then saurus must mean store presumably.

2015年3月27日 · (The same with men calling a woman under the age of 75 or so, "dear".) This is especially true on the NE and SW Coasts - where people are much more easily offended. (In …

2014年5月13日 · Oh, grandmother, what big ears you have!" "All the better to hear you with." "Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!" "All the better to see you with." "Oh, grandmother, …

Oh my godness! However, in classic texts it is goddess, e.g. Shakespeare's "King Lear": Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this …

2010年12月16日 · Oh, I see. I think they'd put f. ("from") or < before Greek if they meant that it came from Greek. In your quote, they trace back the etymology to *gen-, then proceed to say …