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    golly-gosh, golly gosh

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    Read this about the "phase" of the new UK government.

    Then I thought, gosh darnit, we don't use "golly gosh" in the US, but we do use gosh a lot, to replace "god".

    Chase: 'golly gosh' seems BE to me.

    And, what is a 'golly-gosh phase'?

    Is it a "honeymoon phase". A "care-free" phase? Does it indicate blissful ignorance?
    Authoropine (680211) 25 May 10, 18:21
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    Gee whiz, opine! Haven't you ever watched "Leave it to Beaver"?
    #1Author dude (253248) 25 May 10, 18:23
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    dude, point taken. Yes, they use those phrases, but I think they say "Gosh golly", and not "Golly gosh". Heavens almighty, I don't remember. What's a golly? ;-)

    EDIT: Just remembered Gomer Pyle, on what show? Where the character says "Goooolllly". Hmmm. Andy Griffith? Mayberry?
    #2Authoropine (680211) 25 May 10, 18:28
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    surprahs, surprahs, surprahs! ;-)
    #3Author dude (253248) 25 May 10, 18:32
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    From your keyboard to my LAUGH! God, you just writing that makes me hear him saying that. I always felt Gomer was a little misunderstood. He always meant well, called things like he saw them, and somehow was nonetheless unappreciated. Poor Gomer. ;-)
    #4Authoropine (680211) 25 May 10, 18:41
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    Okay, just found in a dictionary, "golly" is also a euphemism for "God".
    So, gosh-golly or golly-gosh are both redundant, sort of.
    I did read that the new UK government is in a "golly-gosh phase",
    and somehow that can't mean a: "God-God phase". Hmmm, maybe so.
    #5Authoropine (680211) 25 May 10, 21:33
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    No, it's not their God-God phase. I read it as the phase in which amazement is the order of the day and people are going around nattering about it incessantly.

    Here's an illustrative quote from FT.com (here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db0a01f8-6764-11df-...)

    Britain’s new government is approaching the end of what one of David Cameron’s colleagues has called its “golly-gosh” phase.

    For the past couple of weeks freshly-minted ministers have sounded as surprised as anyone else about how easily the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have got the habit of collaboration. When the sun shines everything seems possible. [...]

    Gee whillikers!
    #6AuthorKatydid (US) (694445) 25 May 10, 21:39
     
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