2016年11月18日 · I suggest shoot which the Oxford Dictionary of English by Angus Stevenson (2010 Ed.) defines as meaning: Exclamation N. Amer. informal Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’: Shoot, it was a great day to be alive ’ Oxford Living Dictionaries also provides us with the exemplary sentence: "Shoot! I've forgotten my book!" And how about oh damn ...

2018年3月4日 · The earliest mention of 'shoot' in regard to asking a question that I can find is quoted in OED from 1225 and from the other citations it seems to have been an accepted idiom throughout the past eight centuries, or so, for utterances of various kinds.

A example sentence from Oxford dictionary: Shoot - exclamation North American informal used as a euphemism for ‘shit’: shoot, it was a great day to be alive What is the tone of this se...

2021年10月26日 · I wouldn't normally expect to hear / see Oh before snap! in the cited context. To me that looks reminiscent of (AmE) Oh, shoot! and (BrE) Oh, sugar! (euphemistic alternatives to Oh, shit!). Note that @BobtheMagicMoose's link doesn't actually give the "etymology" - it's from a children's "matching" playing cards game, competing to be the first to shout "Snap!" when two consecutive cards have ...

2015年5月14日 · Please kill me and (just) shoot me now are two common idiomatic colloquial expressions which are generally used to mean that you, metaphorically, would rather die than do something or to express ...

2020年7月22日 · The most famous quotation, one I often use for humorous effect, is "Oh joy! Rapture!" "Oh no!" is common. "Oh wow!" "Oh boy," appear less so in my writings. "Oh woe is me," well, never. As I write this, only the last phrase was underlined by my Grammarly app as requiring the comma. But, Grammarly is not always correct. What can I do to remember ...

2016年9月18日 · Shoot used as an interjection is a euphemism for shit, as are shucks and sugar. Wikipedia Wikipedia tells the same story under its entry for shit, albeit more briefly: The word shit (also shite in British and Hiberno-English) is usually avoided in formal speech. Minced oath substitutes for the word shit in English include shoot, shucks, and ...

Ah! Such am I the girl that I thought the question was referring to ‘come on’ as the description for when a guy is intensely interested in a girl and attempts to ‘come on’ to her, or conversely when a girl gives a guy the ‘come on’ in the manner of flirting or …

Not particularly scholarly, but the use of "Rats" as an exclamation came into popular use in the Fifties, with a good deal of help from Scultz's Charlie Brown cartoon.

Wayne Gretzky appears to be the earliest attributed source of this particular expression, although two older sports-related expression say much the same thing: "You can't score if you don't shoot" and "You can't hit the ball if you don't swing." Here are the entries for those three expressions in Charles Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder & Fred Shapiro, The [Yale] Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (2012 ...