Heavens to Betsy!

Jiminy Crickets!!

Land's sake!!

Dangnabbit!

Heavens to Murgatroyd

Goshdarnit! Goshdangit!

My goodness

MARY mother of Maud Adams!

Drat!

Fiddlesticks!

Great Caesar’s Ghost

God's Teeth!

Oh shoot.

Gadzooks!

Flippin' 'eck

I thought this thread was going to be about Olympia, WA punk band Heavens To Betsy, which I always confused with sugary guitar pop band Dressy Bessy (yuck).

“Go to H - E - DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS!”

Blooming taxes

sacrebleu!

Blessèd shirkers.

Corbleu (corps de Dieu)

[quote] sacrebleu!

Au Québec: ventre bleu

Tabarnac

by golly!

by Joe!

sheesh (Jesus!)

R23 means By Jove!

"suffering succotash" which often was reduced to: "succotash!" and I haven't heard it for decades.

Bugger me!

Meaning, "I was rather surprised."

In the UK, natch.

In the 60s I heard By Joe for By Jove in New England. So there.

Did somebody call my name?

Did somebody call my name?

Fuck me running!!

"Go peddle your papers"

Which is better, I guess, than having your mother telling you to go fuck yourself.

Balderdash!

Blackguard!

Great Scott!

mountebank = boastful unscrupulous pretender

R31 you don't quite get this category, do you, cocksucking faggot motherfuker

Well I'll be dashed.

OP, "Jesus H. Christ!" is not a minced oath. What stable were you dragged up in?

You need to perish in Greek fire.

My father told me the inserted H cancels the blasphemy. Guess he was wrong.

Oh my stars & garters!

For goodness' sake!

Good grief!

Heavens above!

Merciful Powers!

Judas Priest!

My dad used to say “Judas Priest!” constantly. One time, we were watching the edited, network TV version of The Exorcist, and Ellen Burstyn had overdubbed one line of dialogue to “Judas Priest” instead of “Jesus Christ,” and my dad said, “Wow! That’s the first time I’ve ever heard someone say ‘Judas Priest’ in a movie!” I got the impression he was not only amused but feeling validated, too. Haha.

Gordon Bennett!

"Bennett's controversial reputation is thought to have inspired, in Britain, the phrase "Gordon Bennett" as an expression of incredulity."

Gor Blimey

Another UK expression of surprise.

The religious neighbor lady would shriek "Egads!" at the drop of a hat.

"He did not marry until he was 73."

Gordon Bennett!

Shut the front door!

One of my grandmothers used to say 'I swan, Bobby" when I did something wrong.

I said, Everhard, shut that door.

You fffffffink!

"Holy Moses!"

Holy Skamolie, or holy molie. Gosh darn it all anyway. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

"She's a C-U-Next-Tuesday" (c-u-n-t)

Goodnight Nurse! Great Mother of Pearl!

Years ago I had a boss, originally from Illinois, who said gee-min-nutley.

Even more years ago (high school) I had a friend who would exclaim "God!" quickly followed up with "Bless america" to make it okay.

What the deuce?

Oh golly gosh!

For crying out loud!

What in the Sam Hill is going on?

Poopy darn! Courtesy of my printing teacher Mr. Pollitt.

Malarkey!

Humbug!

Zounds!

Bullpucky

You make that sign at me again, I’ll leave the print of my hand across your face!

[bold]I’ll make ya teeth rattle![/bold]

Goodness Gracious!

Shhhhhhoot a Monkey!

Jeepers

Geez

Jumpin Jehoshaphat

Golly

Aw crab apples!

Goodness gracious me

My grandparents said “bloody” instead of “fucking”

“I hate the bloody bastards!”

“Where’s my bloody keys?”

My parents and grandparents were too cultured to use euphemisms.

Frickin'

Freakin'

Pity they went down on the Titanic, R72.

Darn

[quote]One time, we were watching the edited, network TV version of The Exorcist, and Ellen Burstyn had overdubbed one line of dialogue to “Judas Priest” instead of “Jesus Christ,”

R45, as a matter of fact, there is one instance of "Judas Priest" original to the theatrical version's dialogue. It occurs when Lt Kinderman is talking with Chris MacNeil about the death of Burke Dennings, and she says, "Judas Priest! Just a second." (occurs @ 1:09:54).

The thing about the edited TV version is that it took 𝑎𝑙𝑙 of the instances of MacNeil yelling "Jesus Christ" (she says it 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡), and replaced them with "Judas Priest." If you and your dad had been watching that version, you would have heard half a dozen instances or so of "Judas Priest" in the film.

"Fit shire!" (in place of "shit fire")

Criminy!

Kiss my grits!

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!

Heck!

The deuce you say!

It was just ghastly!

Jam Up and Jelly Tight!

Crime in Italy! Sounded like criminitly.

Oh dear.

Oh dear Gussie!

Dodd Gam!

I said Dodd Gam!

Flibbertigibbit!

Holy Toledo

Holy Cow

Holy Moley

Mother of God !

Mary and Joseph!

Oh rattle me beads!

Holy Mother Machree!

Oh, St. Aloysius!

Jumpin' St. Jude!

Oh, shhhhhhhoe polish!

Oh, shhhhhhhugar!

My paternal grandmother used to say “Oh, my days!”

My maternal grandmother was not generally concerned with mincing anything, so she would say things like “Well, I’ll be goddamned!”

Geez Louise!

Merciful Minerva!

Great Hera!

Suffering Sappho!

I love the other superhero ones:

Superman: "Great Krypton!"

Aquaman: "Jumping Fishhooks!"

Conan the Barbarian: "By Crom!"

Starfire: "X'Hal!"

Shadow Lass: "By my ancestors!"

Thor: "By Odin's beard!"

Dr. Strange: "By the Great Vishanti!"

Holy Baldy!

I think this one may be mainly used in the south.

Goodnight a’livin’ =Goodnight a living

One granny said, "sugar!"

The other said, "shit!"

Holy Mackerel!

Leepin’ lizards!

SHAME SHAME you've got CURLERS in your hair.

Well I'll be go to hell

Great Caesar's Ghost!

My grandfather favored, "for Christmas sake!" and "for crying out loud!"

Ye Gods!

Oh my stars!

Shaggy: "Zoinks!"

Velma: "Jinkies!"

Daphne: "Jeepers!"

Marvin, a junior Super Friend: "Zonkers!"

Gee whiskers!

Take your filthy paws off my silky drawers!

Cheese 'n Rice!

If you see Kay............tell her I said hi.

You'll shoot your eye out kid.

Peter Billingsley today. Kinda hot.

You cockadoody!

Poppycock!