goodness

interjection, exclamation expressing surprise, anger, etc. (COD); see also below ‘Oh goodness’, ‘goodness sakes’, ‘goodness gracious’, ‘honest to goodness’, ‘thank goodness’, ‘(Oh) my goodness’

“Look at the old fuel truck on there. Goodness.”

“He just passed away.”
“Yeah. Goodness.”

“Oh goodness, yeah. Yeah. That’s the head school.”

“And Halloween Night used to be … ”
“Oh goodness, wild night.”

“Here’s an interesting one. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a picture of the dump when it was still a quarry.”
“Oh goodness.”

“Oh, goodness sakes. Haven’t you got some real pieces of history here!”

“Goodness sakes. That’d be right at the dock where The Holiday Inn is.”

“She’s fifteen.”
“Oh, for goodness sakes.

“There’s still a hydro pole there. The top’s cut off, but you can still see the singed side of the pole from the fire.”
“Really? Oh for goodness sakes, yeah, yeah.”

“I was fifteen, and there was a whole whack of us in that age group. Do you want to hear this story?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh, for goodness sakes. Okay.”

“There’s a lot of conditions that would have been fatal years ago.”
“Oh my goodness gracious I’d have been dead.”

“Oh goodness gracious, yes.”

“And honest to goodness, you could put your hands around her waist like that. I think it was contrived, but anyhow.”
“Was it corsets they used in those days?”

“Grade one children with grade three children. There’s just a whole, huge level of difference there. I mean we got rid of one-room schools, thank goodness.”

“I got it all done on Monday, thank goodness.”

“I have a couple of pictures where he’s- Oh my goodness, I may even have it right now. I think I do.”

” . . . or Hangover Sunday, whichever way you want to put it.”
“Everybody on the island is nursing some sore heads.”
“Oh my goodness, yes.”

“I’ve got a family tree of all the Island names. I’ve got twenty-some thousand names in it.”
“My goodness.”

“Over here I just felt like, my goodness, you’re welcomed into the family and you’re so well taken care of. It’s just lovely. Yeah. And I don’t wanna go back to the city.”

“They should go down to Newfoundland and study language there.”
“Oh my goodness.”

“Oh my goodness, the old schoolhouse, eh?”

“That looks like her too. Yeah. My goodness.”

“Oh my goodness. That’s the year Dad was born.”

“Oh my goodness. Isn’t that something?”

“My goodness, they certainly did well with practically the whole village.”

“But can you imagine now if the boat quit at six at night, eh? Oh my goodness.”