jumping Jehoshaphat
English
Interjection
- (US, dated) Used to express astonishment.
- 1866, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas[1] (Western), London: Richard Bentley, →ISBN, page 100:
- By the jumpin' Geehosofat, what a gurl she air sure enuf!
Synonyms
- (expression of astonishment): great Scott, jumping Jesus